> an American with an American phone, travel to China and can’t buy lunch because the American government mandated deplatforming of the payment app, that’s real

> an American with an American phone, travel to China and can’t buy lunch because the American government mandated deplatforming of the payment app, that’s really annoying to me Politicians only like hammers so all problems are nails, maybe you are right that the enforcement mechanism is overly broad but I also think the situation you paint is inaccurate/made to seem more difficult than it actually would be. My parents went to China and did fine paying for things 13 years before Digital Yuan was created, my (naive) assumption is that, like all places tourists are herded in any country, the place you go will accept both native currency and USD, watches, nice shoes, jewelry…