Reporters Without Borders declared Google and Gmail blocked in China earlier this week. AsiaPundit‘s myrick suggests that might not be entirely the case:

“There are problems with Google's service,” myrick writes, “but these are being massively overstated by RSF. Google and G-Mail services are still working fine here at AsiaPundit Global Headquarters in Shanghai. There were intermittent outages last week, but there was nothing of the sort that indicated a firewall-level block. Beijing residents had a more prolonged outage, although AP understands that this has largely been resolved.”