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The ongoing anti China circus through executive orders is arbitrary and draconian to say the least... and while I've been mostly ignoring it so far, a lot of Americans live in China and have money on Wechat. Are they now violating this week's "law"?

The actual executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

It's quite short and just adds a lot of FUD

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I just went to my Wechat to try to transfer my money left in there to a friend. Transfer isn't going through.

Huge implications if this is true and WeChat has already locked down money transfers. How could you get it out? Bitcoin?

I just managed to move part of my money to friends. Try in smaller amounts. Sending a bunch of hongbaos works up to a point as well (then it requires SMS verification which I can't do right now)

Sending multiple small transactions to evade limits might get you flagged by your bank, or FinCEN, as a potential money launderer.

After fooling around with it, I was able to move or otherwise give away the balance in my account. I had to do in a combination of smaller hongbaos, transfers and business transfers. I triggered face verification with the first transfer I tried, but some how it reset after a while.

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