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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:57PM (#14103780)
Try being a foreigner with a unionpay card but lacking a Chinese indentity card number. I heard it's better now, but that requirement was always a bummer for me in trying to do payments online.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by rahimnathwani on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:12AM (#14104548)
That problem was solved (for at least the big banks: ICBC, BoC, CMB, CCB) for WeChat at least 2 years before you left China.

For Alipay, it was already solved when I moved to China in 2010.

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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by seanmcdirmid on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:38AM (#14106263)
As recently as last year I had trouble setting up Uber in china because they wanted my Chinese ID number to go along with my Chinese credit card. Thing is, they wouldn't ask if I was using a non Chinese card.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by rahimnathwani on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:36AM (#14106710)
I have both Alipay and Baidu Wallet connected to my Uber China account. I haven't tried linking a Chinese bank card directly to Uber, but I don't have any reason to do that.
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