1) United States
2) China
3) Japan
4) Netherlands
5) France
It's only to be expected that American takes the number one spot again. It's a big English speaking country with a large population of web users, China watchers and of Overseas Chinese. ACB also targets American audiences for obvious demographic reasons. The number Two and three spots are also no surprise. ACB target both of these countries, too. four and Five, however, are a bit of a surprise. ACB doesn't target these countries or publish blogs in their languages. The Netherlands is particularly surprising as it's such a small country.
Other old favorites are in there two, including the UK (English speaking, moderate population, interest in China), Hong Kong (for obvious reasons) and Taiwan (Also obvious), and the ever popular "Anonymous Proxy". Interest from Germany has died down now that coverage from Deutsche Welle has died down. Some unexpected entires in the include Afghanistan, Palestine and Iran.
and Don't forget Irish readership. (e.g. me)
Don't forget that the stats are kind of iffy cuz VPN usage tends to
increase non-China counts at the expense of the China tally, e.g. when I'm
in Beijing I'm usually going thru a vpn from Minnesota.
Not all that many people have VPN connections, though the same is true for
people who use open/private proxies. There's not all that much that anybody
can do to allow for either of these that isn't based on estimates and
guesswork.
Can you read Chinese? I think if you encourage reader from China post
comment in Chinese, you will know your readership from China.
Most chinese people ,like me, have to use a proxy to visit your blog.