So by forcing the use of illegal vpns, you can always be arrested. Or fired for not doing your job.

It's not that everything is terrible in China, it's that the Chinese government is an oppressive regime with severe totalitarian bent. Those oppressive regimes which least interfere in the everyday are the most likely to continue existing - we've known this since ancient times.

But censorship, ethnic camps, totalitarian power and mass surveillance do a reppressive regime make.