You can still sync just need to follow this tutorial just need to add non tor few nodes
not only China but all Tor banned countries can sync https://deeponion.org/community/threads/dev-team-when-does-the-consider-starting-domination-task-in-the-chinese.13918/

6 months old, Free airdrop, Pow/PoS, DeepVault, Active community, Fewer coins,  VoteCentral, Domination Tasks, etc.
DeepOnion will soon release an official whitepaper you can read from there more differences from other crypto's.