I personally think China won't resort to blocking foreign exchanges (via their great firewall), I believe if it's something they intend to do, they would have done it by now - if anything, it would have been one of the first things that they would've done (and I'd say they would give their citizens a chance to take their crypto's out of there before immediately banning foreign exchanges). I also don't see any reason why they would unless they're going to make it illegal for a Chinese citizen to buy Crypto with CNY (which they haven't as far as I know). We have to remember, the bans are currently on Chinese ICO's and Chinese Exchanges. Yes, there is a document circulating about them banning mining and foreign exchanges (in the same document), but it's most likely a fake (whether it could happen or not is a different question).

Putting aside of what they plan on doing ... let's assume they don't ban foreign exchanges (yet, or ever). Is there any reason of why a Chinese citizen wouldn't be able to buy crypto's from a foreign exchange (USD/EUR/GBP...etc)? Again, I'm not really sure how Chinese banks work when purchasing anything online in a different currency, I assume it's no different to the UK where if I pay for something in USD, the bank will just convert it using their rates and charge a foreign transaction fee.

Hi,

From my understand - On the 30th September, some chinese-based exchanges will stop CNY to Crypto trading and the rest will stop at the end of October.

Is there any reason of why Chinese Citizens will not be able to use Coinbase, BitStamp or any other site that allows chinese citizens to buy crypto with their CNY?

I would appreciate some input on this as I'm not fully aware of how Chinese banks work, whether they allow foreign payments....etc (e.g. in the UK I can pay for online goods in any currency, it simply converts it using the banks exchange rate - is this not the same in China?).

You obviously didn't look close enough. One is literally below the HK message, and the other is two posts above it. Just because you're incapable of finding it doesn't mean it's fake.

https://image.prntscr.com/image/ONyw6Tf3RvONgF1UsuLEFA.png
https://image.prntscr.com/image/awuMd1lWSgS-qv5lvzzfOA.png

The screenshots below are real, they are NOT FAKE. You can see for yourself by searching in their slack "from:@kris" (without quotations) and look through his messages. They are REAL messages from Kris.

https://i.imgur.com/tdjeOkX.png

https://i.imgur.com/0wSuOdg.png

https://i.imgur.com/LX2JT61.png

They said it will be released on or before 15th September, 11:59PM PT. It can happen anytime within the next 8 hours.