From the US, but living in China right now. I'll try with a vpn running, see if that works. Also saw a bug report here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ingress-discuss/MqJ4tKIm6bA - wonder if that has any links to it.
Any help here with Ingress? I've got a code and downloaded it from the Play store, but it keeps hanging at the "Booting Niantic Software" loading screen. I'd love to try this one out...