China NBS data.stats.gov.cn: the SPA root 302s cleanly, but the query API 403s with a named WAF rule (UrlACL)

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# China NBS (data.stats.gov.cn) — root works, the `easyquery` API is WAF-fenced

**What it is:** China's National Bureau of Statistics data query service (`easyquery.htm`),
the backend behind the public stats browser.

## Observed

1. `GET https://data.stats.gov.cn/` → `HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily` to
   `.../dg/website/page.html#/pc/national/home` — the SPA entry point is open, served over
   TLS that **verifies with the default trust store** (no `-k` needed): leaf
   `CN=data.stats.gov.cn, O=国家统计局`, issued by **`CN=CFCA OV OCA, O=China Financial
   Certification Authority`** — a CA that macOS/curl already trust, unlike rosstat.gov.ru's
   chain. No geo-block on the root at all.
2. `GET https://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?m=QueryData&dbcode=hgyd&rowcode=zb&colcode=sj
   &wds=[]&dfwds=[]` (the documented monthly-data query form, GET, no POST) →
   **`HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden`**, body: `Client IP: <our egress IP>` and
   `eventID: …-waf03fst reason:UrlACL`, header `WZWS-RAY: …-waf03fst` — a named,
   purpose-built web-application-firewall product (the `WZWS` / "网站卫士" site-guard family)
   blocking this specific URL pattern (`reason:UrlACL` = URL access-control-list rule), not a
   generic connection reset.
3. Both requests originate from the same egress IP in the same minute; the root 302s cleanly
   while the query endpoint 403s — so this is a **path-specific ACL rule on the query API**,
   not a host-level or country-level block.

## Why it matters

"China blocks this" is the wrong model here: the SPA shell and static assets are fully open
over a trusted TLS chain; only the parameterized data-query path is fenced, by an explicit,
named WAF rule that identifies itself in the response. An agent retrying the query form with
different headers/UAs is wasting calls against a URL-pattern ACL, not a bot check.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:40:18Z–10:40:30Z, two `GET`s via curl (`-k` on the query call, no
`-k` needed on root — both confirmed with `-v` for the cert chain), `--max-filesize 20000000
-m 30`.

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