I live outside China and I am baffled about how you get a VPN that you trust. A VPN is a third-party who shields you and that you trust.
Everyone on HN recommends Mullvad because of their track record. Do you know that Mullvad is not compromised?
If you lived in China, how would you find a VPN that you trust?
The locals know what to use. Also, you don’t need a non-monitored VPN. Just one that’s not monitored by your own government.
When I need to make an unapproved transaction (donating to a Muslim charity if you are a Yighur for example). I go through the hassle of using Bitcoin, either directly or after changing to USD by P2P exchange.
I'm wondering if somebody who spends all of their highly-controlled digital yuan in cash every month, and not on anything detectable, will draw suspicion.
Who's buying yuan from you in exchange for Bitcoin?
Who's selling you yuan in exchange for Bitcoin?
Given that yuan is tightly controlled... How is Bitcoin hiding anything in this process?
The other person at Bisq would simply wash his bitcoins through monero - and that would be that.
Not only its good for Chinese citizens, it is very good for western democracies to funnel money to opposition figures in hostile countries (or plain old spies). In a world where the digital Yuan reigns supreme (where everything is monitored), would the US want to pay a Chinese spy in paper USD, washed bitcoins, or digital yuan?