FWIW, Taiwanese media are having a field day sensationalizing the degree of control that China has undertaken. Last week, they broadcasted nonstop footages of Shanghai PSB ramming into homes and smashing mahjong tables because of a (national? provincial?) edict banning non-family members from congregating, even in private homes. And now they are talking about a new law immediately affecting Guangzhou and Shenzhen that, for the first time since the Cultural Revolution, allows the local government to confiscate private property if it deems necessary for fighting the virus.[/QUOTE]

The videos I have been seeing are mostly small mahjong clubs that continue to operate despite the ban. The kind that operate in a converted residential apartment. A lot are circulating on wechat and have not been scrubbed, so this seems to be information they want to let out.

Any idea what the purpose of confiscating private property is about? That worries me a bit, one of our facilities is in a smaller city where the local govt officials are going around turning off power to keep certain businesses from operating. There is a definite level of over-reaction there.