There is an article out that Chinese gov will block all foreign VPNs. Is this something that would affect mysterium network, or could the network circumvent this?
interested in this as well. also how secure is this network when compared with the top VPN providers out there presently, in any unbiased manner?
In order to be relevant, MYST must be able to function even through the Chinese great firewall. It is in countries where governments restrict the internet that VPNs are mostly needed.
To answer your question about how security is MYST in an unbiased manner.
VPN providers often give access and data to law enforcement to catch criminals, whistle-blowers, etc. Due to the centralised nature of commercial VPN's this is an easy thing to do. I think that this would be near impossible with MYST. Definitely more secure in that respect

Also, you must remember, for any state-level attacker simply a VPN/TOR will never be enough. It will never provide 100% annonymity from such an expert, there are many more ways to anonymise yourself. Everything in the internet leaves a trace, and everyone makes a mistake. Sooner or later everyone gets caught.