ChinesePod Today: Possible Death Penalty for U.S. Bitcoin Trader and Girlfriend (simp. characters)
ChinesePod News (April 23, 2019)
An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend were accused of violating Thailand’s sovereignty by building and living in a “sea home” off the coast of Phuket. Officials said that the couple have threatened the country’s national security by promoting “seasteading” and consequentially could face the death penalty.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/PUMklZmHyFU
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
威胁 to threaten
死刑 death penalty
侵犯 to violate
躲匿 to hide
*Editor's note: there is a slip on the host's pronunciation of 主权 (correction: zhu3 quan2)
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An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend were accused of violating Thailand’s sovereignty by building and living in a “sea home” off the coast of Phuket. Officials said that the couple have threatened the country’s national security by promoting “seasteading” and consequentially could face the death penalty.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/PUMklZmHyFU
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
威胁 to threaten
死刑 death penalty
侵犯 to violate
躲匿 to hide
*Editor's note: there is a slip on the host's pronunciation of 主权 (correction: zhu3 quan2)
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