Comment by ceejayoz

12 hours ago

Credit card processors are, as a natural aspect of their purpose, a deeply useful surveillance network.

In the opposite direction unionpay works at major US retailers directly or at least through a partnership with discover, even Alipay is available at CVS, while us processors presence in China is next to zero.

  • Alipay is available only through Discover. Chinese processors have no presence in the US. In the same way in China you can use Visa and Mastercard through WeChat.