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.

They're shutting down tiny exchanges like BISS with its 10 employees. Considering they are targeting such little fish, the numbers don't surprise me. All the big exchanges voluntarily obeyed the ban and left the country in 2017. Now the government appears to be enforcing the ban against all the little guys.

Supposedly, the exact number was 173.