{"id":1010682,"date":"2026-05-29T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010682"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:32:48","slug":"chinas-tencent-to-allow-paypal-payments-through-its-wechat-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/chinas-tencent-to-allow-paypal-payments-through-its-wechat-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tencent to allow PayPal payments through its WeChat networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong: PayPal users will be able to make cashless payments in China using QR codes through Tencent&#8217;s WeChat Pay&#8217;s extensive merchant network, the Chinese technology giant says, in a move calibrated to attract more foreign tourists. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from social media and messaging, Tencent&#8217;s WeChat offers payment services called WeChat Pay, or Weixin Pay, in mainland China. <\/p>\n<p>Tencent said in a statement that the feature will be available to US-based PayPal users first, with more markets to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong: PayPal users will be able to make cashless payments in China using QR codes through Tencent&#8217;s WeChat Pay&#8217;s extensive merchant network, the Chinese technology giant says, in a move calibrated to attract more foreign tourists. Apart from social media and messaging, Tencent&#8217;s WeChat offers payment services called WeChat Pay, or Weixin Pay, in mainland China. Tencent said in a statement that the feature will be available to US-based PayPal users first, with more markets to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010711,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010682\/revisions\/1010711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}