(original article in Swedish that reported this)
Posting this because I hadn't heard about it before and I'm probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.
The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]
The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.
Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)
Even if you're comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.
I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it's not great 
letsVPN has been crap recently, I'm on HK esim for now, but I heard Mullvad was a good provider that works in China. Besides Astrill (pricey) what would any sinobears recommend as an alternative?
What you need is not technically a VPN but a proxy service, commonly known as an "airport". The difference between a VPN and an airport is mostly technical, all you need to know is that the focus is different: VPNs just hide the contents of your traffic from your ISP, but don't hide the fact that you're using a VPN. Airports use different protocols (Shadowsocks, VLESS, Trojan, etc.) focused on hiding the fact that you're using a proxy in the first place.
Most airports don't have their own client apps so they work with generic clients, the most common of which is Clash in its various forms (the core clash-kernel implementation is open source software, most GUI apps based on it are also FOSS but not all of them are). If you need help picking a version of Clash for a specific platform lmk. Usually once you sign up to an airport you get a private URL which you paste into Clash to create a configuration and you're ready to go.
Regarding specific providers the landscape changes all the time and I'm not very up to date. Last time I was in China I used one called Nexitally (dot com) which is still active and was quite good, but it was a couple years ago and I don't know if it's still reliable now. Anyway if you search stuff like "best clash airports 2026" you should find lists with a bunch of options.
As a heads up, airports are quite a bit more expensive than normal VPNs and usually have traffic caps (15-20USD/month for 500GB would be a normal price, for reference). Also, their websites generally don't look like VPNs, they will market themselves as "network accelerators" or some other buzzword. They have to keep a lower profile than normal VPNs so they won't directly tell you "we help you scale the wall", you need a bit of experience to figure out what service they're actually providing if you don't already know. Also remember to download Clash and set up the airport while you're still on your HK esim or outside the mainland, their websites might not be reachable from inside the wall.
Here's a few links that might be useful:
https://clashfast.com/zh-CN/blog/articles/clash-subscription-airport-buying-guide-2026.html
https://clashsource.com/en/blog/articles/how-to-choose-reliable-clash-airport-subscription-guide-2026.html
https://github.com/clashdownload/Clash
Also for @departee@hexbear.net.
not a vpn but some users on here have been talking about vless, if someone has a guide for dummies I'd be interested too