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>>el_dud+(OP)
Before I went to China I bought a burner phone, mainly to install WeChat (which is also a kind of malware and also "required" in China). Basic Android phones are not too expensive these days - I wonder if it will become commonplace to own several and physically separate your life across them?

FWIW I got a Huawei phone (Honor 10 Lite) for under 200 EUR, but much cheaper phones than that are available.

Edit: To be clear this is not to avoid Chinese surveillance. That's unavoidable whatever you do because China is a police state. It's to separate out that surveillance from my contacts and my regular life at home. (I also think it's at least arguable that the Chinese government has a duty to look closely at what foreigners are up to. It's not an argument that I agree with myself very much because it infringes freedom while also making the wrong trade-offs, but given we live in a world of nation states it follows logically from that.)

>>rwmj+k6
Kind of ironic you bought a burner phone to avoid Chinese surveillance then turn around and buy a Huawei phone

>>mfatic+D8
I read that as the Huawei phone being the burner phone, which is the point.

>>ericye+z9
Maybe he can save a little time at the border by buying the phone that already reports back to the Communist Party, avoiding the hassle of having the border agents install the spyware while you wait.