I've visited their local board here in the forum to see if there are some noise about the issue and so far I don't see any topics related to exchanges being shut down (either big or small) so my guess are this news about China is either fake or if it's real we are only talking about small exchanges here that's not even the main exchange of the Chinese people. You can check out their local board for yourselves and quickly translate it to English by right-clicking and then click "translate to English" to see what their topics.
Or maybe everyone on that board is a Russian or Filipino using Google translate.
They're a bunch of unhelpful gits keeping us in the dark. I remember ONE Chinese person from there popping into other areas attempting to explain things in the past and that was it.
Buck up, Chinese folks.
And what made you think that Russians and Filipinos are the ones hanging out in that board and not real Chinese people are posting in their own board? I guess there is a possibility of that especially when we have fake translators running around in the forum but for them to participate a board where they don't even know the language I just don't see it happening. But maybe you are right and using their local board to see if what exchanges are affected isn't a good thing especially when the translated topics are mostly not about exchanges in the first place.