All of these are either extremely exaggerated or straight up lies. Source: I am in China right now.
Visa process for China wasn’t all that bad and was relatively quick compared to another much worse visa experience.
My phone plan covers roaming, free data (throttled after 5 GB) and $.25 a minute calls, and doesn’t require a VPN or anything else.
Got an eSIM online as a backup due to the throttling and it works great. Also don’t need a VPN for that.
Credit cards are accepted at places that cater to foreigners, but it’s easy for foreign visitors to set up AliPay and you can use that pretty much everywhere.
Again, AliPay is easy to set up and accepted at most places.
This is just straight up BS.
I don’t know about train travel but foreigners can use subways just fine at least. They even have everything in English as well as Chinese.
Haven’t had any issues with this and passports are accepted as ID any time I’ve purchased tickets for anything.
They do have enough English on road signs to know where you’re going. You’re not going to be driving in China anyways and even if you were, map apps work just fine. The street names are pinyin because they are Chinese. What else would they be?
No issues accessing these on my primary phone plan or eSIM even without a separate VPN, and I can also access anything on non-mobile internet with a VPN.
Again, no issues with a VPN. I can even access hexbear dot net to let people know that Winnie the Pooh being banned in China is completely made up.
All of these are either extremely exaggerated or straight up lies. Source: I am in China right now.
Visa process for China wasn’t all that bad and was relatively quick compared to another much worse visa experience.
My phone plan covers roaming, free data (throttled after 5 GB) and $.25 a minute calls, and doesn’t require a VPN or anything else.
Got an eSIM online as a backup due to the throttling and it works great. Also don’t need a VPN for that.
Credit cards are accepted at places that cater to foreigners, but it’s easy for foreign visitors to set up AliPay and you can use that pretty much everywhere.
Again, AliPay is easy to set up and accepted at most places.
This is just straight up BS.
I don’t know about train travel but foreigners can use subways just fine at least. They even have everything in English as well as Chinese.
Haven’t had any issues with this and passports are accepted as ID any time I’ve purchased tickets for anything.
They do have enough English on road signs to know where you’re going. You’re not going to be driving in China anyways and even if you were, map apps work just fine. The street names are pinyin because they are Chinese. What else would they be?
No issues accessing these on my primary phone plan or eSIM even without a separate VPN, and I can also access anything on non-mobile internet with a VPN.
Again, no issues with a VPN. I can even access hexbear dot net to let people know that Winnie the Pooh being banned in China is completely made up.