As some of you may know, Chinese provider The9 forcefully opened the gates and accelerated the Sunwell progression as far as Phases with the SSO event on Chinese servers as they got access MUCH later than we did. As much as some of us disagree with this, it’s not something we can change at all, [...]

This comes straight from the World of Warcraft home page.
We’re pleased to announce that our agreements with The9, our World of Warcraft partner in mainland China, and Soft-World, our World of Warcraft partner in the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, have been updated to include the localization, operation, and [...]