We were buying exactly same "direct physical link" to HK. It came not to be such. We connected a fibre tester, and nothing was coming out on hk side. We tried

We were buying exactly same "direct physical link" to HK. It came not to be such. We connected a fibre tester, and nothing was coming out on hk side. We tried connecting to google.com, and to our surprise this "physical" link was also censored. Then the cableman basically says, use this link, and VPN over it. The speed was quite good still.