We are in the same space - meaning trying to address a part of this problem - https://spiti.xyz. Source: almost 2 years ago

I live in Shanghai and for years I used the webpage translate.google.cn but one day Google decided to retire the Chinese service and now this redirects to the Hong Kong page. What's the problem with taht you may ask, well let me tell you. It doesn't take you to the translate page, it takes you to the HK Google search and when you click then it actually takes you to translate.google.hk that extra step is annoying. Source: 12 months ago

Today, at minimum 10 hours ago translate.google.cn became inaccessible, I found this based on an automated test accessing it failing. It redirects to a normal Google search. translate.google.hk still accessible. Source: over 1 year ago

Yeah, I think so. Despite their search engine being blocked in China, Google has 4 offices on the mainland. Google Translate is not blocked in China (the .cn one I mean). I wonder what else they do there. I hope they have not restarted work on Dragonfly). I just can't trust them. Source: almost 2 years ago

Try to see if you can go to translate.google.cn in a browser. Source: over 2 years ago

Not much to comment. Yes, they killed it – website got blocked (in case you didn't know, translate.google.cn was available the whole time, too). What the other guy said about reinstalling languages is probably about on-the-phone translation, which is a totally different. Source: over 2 years ago