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Safe travels

好棒朋友！中国是非常特别的国家! 祝你旅游顺利！

1. You are always, at a minimum, being passively monitored by the state - even at home, wherever that may be 😁

2. One phone loaded with a Chinese SIM card. Another phone that you enable with an international plan from your home country but keep off or with cellular / wifi / Bluetooth disabled except for emergency

3. Mullvad VPN. Asrtill works well in China but requires self-doxxing and word on the street is that Astrill is either run by or backdoored by your friendly neighborhood 3LA.

4. MOST OF ALL - Have fun and don’t take any of this shit too seriously. You ain’t Jason Bourne (probably). If the Chinese Govt has already issued you a visa then:

1) They’ve assessed you to be a non-issue / non-threat and most other security actives will be theatrical or cosmetic. More for their own people than you really - remember this if ever some process seems frustrating of nonsensical. You do not have to be index to the nonsense because the nonsense 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. Many a foreigner forgets this and has a shit time there…

2) They intend to let you in and then exit-ban you (soft hostage taking) as a means to strong-arm some relative of yours (who’d have a profile like a high ranking party official who embezzled and skipped the country or a major political dissident) into “returning to China in a fit of patriotic fervor to denounce their crimes and seeks forgiveness from the enduring spirit of the Chinese people…”

Case 1 is the overwhelming mostly likely, and if you have ANY of the conditions of Case 2, traveling to China is foolish to say the least.

Enjoy 🙂

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