From what I've read if you use a VPN it's pretty simple to get past the great firewall of china. It's also only technically illegal, and not really punished.
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Well, no, if you open a wireguard connection it well just get dropped in a minute. You need to do a lot more work than that
Doesnt it also depend on the type of VPN and the providers?
People posting here don't realize that CN gov IDs and allows certain traffic to get rerouted through a certain VLAN so they can do DPI and record every packet through a beefy expensive tap device to analyze the telemetry later, and potentially build a case against you. If they so choose. And they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS.
Don't bring in any tech, don't access your personal net back home, don't expect any level of actual privacy or good intentions. Just do your business and keep your digital digital persona minimal while there.
Case against you for doing what exactly? Just don't break the law. It's not hard. They're hardly going to care much about an average American going on holiday unless he intends on causing problems, a disruption, or potentially has useful information
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What you’re asking is illegal where you’re going
Best of luck to you
You realize not only Google is blocked, but also Brave search, duckduckgo, everything but Russian and Chinese search engines? You can't find anything on them except scams and SEO spam
I found deepseek was good for using as a search engine. Lol.
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Not really. It's a grey area. They don't care about foreigners using vpns at all. It's kind of expected. Foreign SIMs don't even face blocks on mobile networks. If you're going to a sensitive province of China, I think they'll care slightly more, but as long as you're not using the VPN to do something illegal, you'll be okay.
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