Probably not! Algo is not made for circumvention, it's made for security. You need to go to the extremes of anti-circumvention tech to get ANYTHING to work in China too. It's not a matter of OpenVPN vs IPSEC. None of them work. Tough problem! I'd love to get funding to work on it though.
At the very least, you'll look nearly exactly like a regular business traveler trying to VPN back to HQ with an Algo setup, so it'll attract less suspicion for that reason alone.
It uses IPSEC, so depending on the Chinese authorities, maybe or maybe not. Keep in mind it's the same protocol that is used by foreigners to VPN back into their offices, so if they're willing to annoy them, it probably won't work.
Correct. You could always use your own server from another provider, or use Azure/GCP/AWS instead, but nothing prevents them from blocking IPSEC to common cloud/web hosting providers.
Probably not! Algo is not made for circumvention, it's made for security. You need to go to the extremes of anti-circumvention tech to get ANYTHING to work in China too. It's not a matter of OpenVPN vs IPSEC. None of them work. Tough problem! I'd love to get funding to work on it though.
At the very least, you'll look nearly exactly like a regular business traveler trying to VPN back to HQ with an Algo setup, so it'll attract less suspicion for that reason alone.