Sometimes an emergency requires a call to be made...

Nope

I remember my first CI flight in or around 2007 as an adult where I tried to do some reading on my O2 XDA in flight mode and the Taiwanese passenger glared at me and took out the no phones use at all statement in the safety card. I complied, but the statement was removed by the next time I flew with them.

It's so weird that nowadays nobody really cares what you do on your phone unless you're distracting them. Flight mode is largely useless as nobody checks to make sure the phone is in that state. I don't even remember how I was able to survive intercontinental flights without a smartphone or an MP3 player.

I habitually turn back on data over HK airspace (crew are usually seated by that time) and failed to crash any planes before the pandemic.

I made calls from an aeroplane (AA IIRC) during the last millennium.

New We Chat registrations in China “temporarily” halted.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/t...de-2021-07-27/

The past week has been a master class in how to destroy an industry in as few days as possible.

They already have our phone numbers (which are connected to our IDs), our bank accounts, our contacts, our follower counts (assuming you use timeline/moments), and our chats. What else could they possibly want?

That said, I agree with the guy in the article who said the market overreacted to this latest news. Government/Tencent spying was been priced into the stock for a long time.

I just read that there is a Chinese stock selloff on Wall Street. Seems like heavy handed tactic from the Chinese government.

It's pretty easy to call or video chat using WeChat in the Lav during flights if wi-fi is good. ;)

Tell that to Ant Financial, Didi, or… New Oriental Education lol.

China is crazy.

Whilst seemingly crazy to 'outsiders', maybe the phrase 'market realignment' can be used with an element of truth.

Technology stocks will regain their strength long term - maybe not the educational centres.

However, everything in China is planned with a very long term view.

Restrictions in educational pressure and costs? - Encourage people to have 2nd & 3rd children - at present put off by the costs?

Restricting teenagers to 1 hour gaming a day / week / weekend? How many western parents would love something like that?

Revisit all of this in a few years and see what 'decline' their has been in stock values........

Is there any easy way to forward an e-mail message to a WeChat conversation?

Do you have something in the email message where copy and paste does not work?

In WeChat message from contact:

1. Select individual message
2. At bottom of screen - right hand side ... (3 dots) select
3. Click 'add to e-mail'