Any way you want to slice this, there is data travelling, and China has the deep packet inspection and machine learning technology to identify what type of conn

Any way you want to slice this, there is data travelling, and China has the deep packet inspection and machine learning technology to identify what type of connection it is even if it's encrypted or tunneled. The average lifespan of an unauthorized VPN connection transiting the Great Firewall is a few minutes or less, depending on how much data you try to push across it. It's really not hard to fingerprint a connection just based on traffic analysis, even if you can't see the actual data travelling across it. If China wants it shut down, it'll be shut down, full stop.