China on a RTW?
 

Still a newbie, so please bear with me. Based on what I can tell, there is no good way to go through China at the moment with RWT tickets, correct? Therefore, all tickets in China will have to be out of pocket.

Given the qualification of "good way," I would agree. However, you can do HEL-PEK on AY and LHR-PEK on BA and PEK-HKG on CX (or the reverse of all of these). That's about it for now. CX will do HKG-PVG probably sometime next year.