ChinesePod Today: Possible Death Penalty for U.S. Bitcoin Trader and Girlfriend (simp. characters)
- 5 years ago
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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