It’s currently unclear if the outage is an outright ban or the result of a DNS attack.
Steam international is down in China but the China only version is currently working normally with the full catalog of ~100 games, all state approved.
China has been cracking down on gaming and all online gaming hard over the past few months so this move would fall in line with their previous moves towards the industry but Valve nor the CCP have made any definitive comments on the issue and there is a lot of conflicting reports floating around.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/12/25/22853520/steam-global-china-banned
https://www.thegamer.com/steam-banned-china-christmas-day/
Steam international is down in China but the China only version is currently working normally with the full catalog of ~100 games, all state approved.
China has been cracking down on gaming and all online gaming hard over the past few months so this move would fall in line with their previous moves towards the industry but Valve nor the CCP have made any definitive comments on the issue and there is a lot of conflicting reports floating around.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/12/25/22853520/steam-global-china-banned
https://www.thegamer.com/steam-banned-china-christmas-day/