Does WeChat Pay still work in the US? The answer is: yes, WeChat Pay works perfectly fine in the US. Customers pay in RMB, the WeChat wallet automatically converts the currency at the real-time exchange rate, and merchants receive USD—with HantePay providing the solution on the US side. WeChat Pay's adoption in the US has gone through several phases: 1) The first phase was widespread adoption. As WeChat Pay's service provider in the US, HantePay built its base in Los Angeles, delivering a complete solution for Chinese-owned businesses and providing payment support to Chinese merchants nationwide as well as local, Chinese-friendly businesses. 2) The second phase came in 2020, when the Trump administration issued two bans within a single year. Both were challenged in federal court by the Chinese-American community and ultimately struck down. The US government later paid more than $1 million in compensation to the community that brought the suit. 3) In the third phase, the pandemic led China's government to restrict outbound tourism, sharply reducing in-store WeChat Pay use at US brick-and-mortar locations. But cross-border business shifted online, broadening WeChat Pay's reach even further. Media update, July 15, 2021: Latest status—in the US, merchants can continue to collect payments and individuals can pay safely. President Joe Biden revoked a series of executive orders issued by former President Donald Trump on August 6, 2020, which aimed to ban new downloads of WeChat, TikTok, and other Chinese apps, and ordered a fresh review. Biden's executive order also rescinded another Trump order, signed in January 2021, targeting eight additional communications and financial technology software applications. (Trump's order had directed officials to ban transactions with eight Chinese apps, including Ant Group's Alipay and Tencent's QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.) Source links: Reuters (July 15, 2021): https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-social-media-biden/us-appeals-court-dismisses-governments-appeal-of-tiktok-ruling-idUSKBN2EL200 South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3140849/us-takes-final-step-end-trump-era-legal-effort-ban-tiktok-and-wechat