title: Azure in China and the great firewall, centralized database?
body: <p>I have this application thats using a centralized database located outside of the firewall.
  I need to run an azure-china hosted instance of my application. 
  I have had some issues with getting the application to start and I'm not quite sure why. One thing that struck me is that I have heard a lot of rumors regarding a Chinese firewall. Could this be the problem? That the Chinese application can't request my centralized database?</p>
  
  <p>thanks in advance!</p>