If WeChat is "banned" Chinese small businesses, the dream will be difficult to realize

[Overseas Chinese Daily reporter Gao Rui, August 7, Los Angeles report] Last night, the White House promulgated the WeChat "ban" like a stone stirred up thousands of waves, causing strong repercussions in the Chinese community in Nanjia, some people who rely on WeChat to do business are worried that their financial road will be cut off, some WeChat Internet celebrities are worried that their fans will disappear from now on, some people are worried that they will not be able to video chat with chinese relatives from now on, and some self-media are worried that their WeChat platform has since collapsed.

Linda, a Los Angeles Chinese who is engaged in the online health product business, said that in the past few years, she has opened the health product market in more than 30 countries through the WeChat platform, all customers are in contact with her through WeChat, and all transactions are settled through WeChat payment, "If WeChat is banned, my business will be 100% affected." Because of the suddenness of the incident, I have not yet thought about how to do my future business without WeChat. But to be honest, although there are still online apps such as Line, Instagram, WhatsApp, QQ, etc., in terms of function, they can't be compared with WeChat."

Ms. Li, a Los Angeles Chinese who is engaged in the life insurance and underwear business through WeChat, is very worried that she has been doing the underwear business for several months and has just improved, and now suddenly says that WeChat will be "banned", which makes her feel overwhelmed for a while. Her underwear is purchased from Chinese factories in WeChat Payment, more than half of U.S. customers buy underwear are also paid by WeChat, only a few people through bank transfers, "I really don't know what to do next when WeChat is banned"?

Ms. Li said that her life insurance business is also through WeChat to find customers, the career is at its peak, last month she earned 30,000 yuan on insurance alone, plus the income of two other jobs, she can fully enter the "white-collar" class in the United States. "But now that WeChat is banned, my life insurance and underwear business have been seriously affected at the same time, and I don't have any score on what to do next."

Ms. Wang, a Los Angeles Chinese who is engaged in the "family kitchen" business, lamented that she came to the United States for more than 20 years, experienced a lot of setbacks and ups and downs, did pyramid schemes, opened a travel company, worked as a tour guide, worked as an Uber driver, all because of various reasons and switched runways, just like the current new crown epidemic, the tourism industry is full of mourning, she is also difficult to "stand alone", "ban" and let her Uber business become "no rice cooking", it is hard to think of the "family kitchen", through the WeChat takeaway food out of the way, Shot by a trump executive order, the American dream is really difficult to do!