hey how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be talking about the best
vpns for beijing china so before we get if you guys are interested in any of the vpns mentioned
today beat express nord or surf shark you'll find special deals and discounts in the description
down below as well as for reviews if you'd like to learn more about these vpns so beijing is the
capital of china in one of the four municipalities in china it is located northeast of tianjin city
on a plane near the mountains and surrounded by hills the city has been an important political
cultural and economic center for more than 2000 years it's the world's second most populous city
with a metro area of almost 25 million people if you need to visit this city you'll find
nearly everything you need to do online will be difficult unless you connect to a vpn and while
this may seem obvious censorship is vast in the country in the early 2000s the chinese ministry of
information started censoring the internet because control is the way to stay in power curiously the
great wall of china is surprisingly similar to the great firewall of china in other words it
is not one set of rules implemented by beijing instead the capital drives censorship nationally
but carries it out locally the great firewall of china automatically blocks anything critical
of the government in addition to censorship china has pervasive government monitoring they literally
watch everything you say and do on the internet as if controlling what you see isn't good enough
it is not a pleasurable experience to speak out against the government in most cases
even though connecting to a vpn may be one way to do it remember they're always watching what
you say and so are vpns legal in china and while the country allows them their constant
and international threats to ban all vpns may make you worry if you are headed there so i suggest you
download any vpn apps before you go because you won't find them in the app stores there keep in
mind there are several times of the year when the government will crack down hard on vpn usage some
of these include anniversaries like a june 4th the 1989 uh tiananmen square protests i hope i said
that correctly events like the hong kong protests and others if you are there during those times you
won't have an easy time using a vpn so can you use a free vpn in beijing well although many free vpns
are chinese you'll run into issues that is especially true if the vpn is quote unquote
approved by the government you can guarantee that they will have backdoors for any encryption
assuming they had any to begin with additionally malware poor server speeds and data caps are an
issue with free services the bottom line is yes you can use a free one but don't expect
it to protect you or unblock any banned content so before i talk about these vpns i'm just gonna
mention a few helpful tips for using a vpn while in beijing or just china generally
because of the restrictions in the country there isn't a great solution for vpn usage however
here are a few things you can do that may help the biggest one is don't take no for
an answer in other words if you are having issues connecting try changing these things
now these things may or may not work but you won't have much to lose by trying them out
okay so you want to try changing vpn protocols sometimes protocols are blocked while others
aren't so if you can't connect to let's say open vpn udp you might want to try lightweight or any
other protocols in the other vpns or whatever protocol you might have available another thing
you can try doing is use a different device so this can work at times since mobile traffic and
regular traffic may be handled differently and you can look at the date as i mentioned earlier
timing matters if it is close to june 4th you may not be able to do much
you can try different cities on occasion you may be able to connect to a different city even if it
is slow it is still a success so if you're having trouble connecting to one country try another or
just another city you can try using a different network because anything you can do to change what
you're doing may mean success for you and besides that i mean you can just be patient this one is
hard for many of us but especially if you want to use the web however even if repeating these
steps don't work you'll know at least you are trying okay so how do you know which one of these
vpns could be the best choice for you well it depends on what you're looking for out of the vpn
now expressvpn has over 3 000 servers in 94 countries and will allow you to secure up
to five devices per subscription expressvpn has basic features such as the internet kill switch
which is called network lock and express and split tunneling if you're not familiar with these
the kill switch will make sure that you're only connected to the internet when you're secured
by the vpn so if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly it will also disconnect your internet connection
making sure that you don't connect back to the isp servers making sure that you don't
connect back to your internet service providers servers and only be connected through the vpn
secured servers now split telling will allow you to choose which applications are routed through
the vpn in which are not so you could only have for example your torrenting client router
through the vpn while the rest of your network is left intact or untouched by the vpn connection
or the other way around where you could have select applications bypass the vpn connection
while the rest of your network is secured by the vpn okay so let's say you're looking for a vpn
that is a little bit more budget-friendly and that would be nordvpn with over 5100 servers
in 60 countries now even though nordvpn has 34 less countries than vpn as you can tell
it is still quite the number at 60 countries you'll be able to secure up to six devices
per subscription though and a whole bunch of security features such as specialty servers
as you can tell here with a dedicated ip double vpn onion overvpn and peer-to-peer and of course
you've got an ad blocker right here and the very quick and best-performing protocol nord
links keep in mind when you switch to nord links you will lose access to double vpn and dedicated
ip and unless you need these specific specialty servers i would just recommend that you stick to
nord links which is a very quick protocol in fact so quick that you don't want to use anything else
not only do you get the conventional kill switch but you also get the ab kills which will close
selected apps when you disconnect from the vpn or the connection drops rather than disconnecting
your entire connection as it is with the conventional kill switch split tunneling you've
got also custom dns which is an easy way to change your dns and obfuscated servers if you're in a
censorship heavy country now if you're looking for the most budget-friendly vpn that would be
surf shark surfshark has over 3200 servers in 65 countries which makes it a very convenient option
for those wanting to secure a whole bunch of devices with just one subscription because it will
allow you to virtually secure an unlimited number of devices with just one subscription and it being
such a budget-friendly vpn without necessarily sacrificing much on security performance or
features for that matter makes it a very enticing vpn for most people especially those that don't
want to spend a whole lot at least on their first vpn experience so you still get multi-hop and
static ip which are the same as double vpn and dedicated ip from nordvpn and if you don't know
what these are by the way static ip will give you well static ip addresses which means that these
servers have ips that are set and do not change multihop will route your connection to two servers
as you can tell rather than one for double the protection making it extra difficult to track you
and in these settings here you will notice that we still get whitelister which is split tunneling
it's just called whitelister here the kill switch an ad blocker as well as a handful of protocols
for the most part you just want to use the best performing protocol again that'll be the wireguard
protocol it's so quick that you don't want to use anything else you've got ikev2 which is a
good protocol it's pretty quick extra security will be offered by openvpn both udp and tcp and
shadowsocks will help you reach banned websites if you're in a censorship heavy country though it
will only secure your browser traffic so keep that in mind and no borders mode will help you bypass
the great firewall of china if you are in china or any other censorship-heavy country for that matter
uh and you know if you notice that expressvpn doesn't really have any obfuscated kind of options
here for obfuscation and whatnot that's because expressvpn actually has obfuscation on by default
it's always on and you don't have to go through any sort of configuration or toggle any kind of
option in order to turn on all you have to do is download it and it will work whether you're china
outside of china in any other censorship-heavy country it doesn't matter that's of course part
of the ease of use with express vpn so that'll be it for this video guys keep in mind that all
these vpns are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee so no matter which vpn you decide to
go for you'll be able to claim the refund let me just show you guys very quickly so if i go
ahead and get expressvpn you'll notice that all these vpns it says there are 30-day money-back
guarantees on them so uh even if you just go for the one-month plan you will be able to claim the
refund through the 24 7 live chat support by the way it's the same with nordvpn and surf shark all
you need to do is hover over the bottom right and you'll be able to access the live chat support
the 24 7 live chat support where they will help you with your refund or any other question you
might be having about these vpns again you'll find links to special deals and discounts in
the description down below for all of these vpns and you'll also find full reviews that'll give
you more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy speed streaming taunting capabilities as
well as security and features so be sure to check those out if you guys are interested that'll be
it for this video comment below if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer all of them like
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security thank you guys very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day