You won't reach alberts-hacker-cloud.com behind the great firewall. The warning message you get from the internet police won't be a pleasant experience either. But try it and learn the hard way. Let the fear and dread wash over when you realize how far away from home you are, and how utterly alone you are in a foreign system.
Have you ever actually been to China? The great firewall acts as a blacklist, not a whitelist. If you don't publicly announce the server you are going to use, you'll be able to access it. If the traffic pattern looks suspicious, you might have to deal with randomly dropped connections or throttling, but with the right internet provider or one of the working VPNs, those aren't an issue either.
If it comes to the point where the police gets involved, no level of crypto is going to help you anyway. You'd better try to contact your country's embassy so they can get you out.
