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Old Jun 12, 2023 | 1:43 am
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mdkowals
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Originally Posted by Kilian Zoll
Based on what I'm reading in this thread, I can now use Alipay with a foreign credit card and pay for stuff throughout China? Is that correct?
Technically true, but YMMV. It can vary from vendor to vendor, credit card to credit card, and week to week. It's good to have both a card and balance on Alipay, but the balance has to come from someone with a Chinese bank account (for us either a co-worker or the hotel will do it).
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