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China internet outage Great Firewall glitch Live Events FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel On August 20, 2025, for about 60 minutes, China's internet was disconnected from the global web, leaving experts and users confused. Activist group Great Firewall Report spotted the outage. They said it stopped all traffic to TCP port 443, which is the standard port for HTTPS websites.The group wrote, "Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8), the Great Firewall of China exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all…
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