in a public setting, it doesn t alleviate or address the concerns about her wellbeing. staying with china, a top chinese live streamer has been fined $210 million for tax evasion. huang wei, known as viya, is famous for her ability to sell anything by livestreaming on the taobao live platform from noodles to a commercial rocket launch. viya has more than 80 million followers on taobao and another 18 million on weibo. she was fined for hiding personal income and other offences in 2019 and 2020. our china analyst kerry allen explains what we can read into this. well, if you think in general in china, it s a communist country, and live streaming is this new lucrative way of being able to influence how people spend their money. so someone like viya, who s got this huge following and literally can attract young audiences and encourage them how to spend their money, it puts companies in certain positive lights. and then there might be, obviously, the kind of influence that comes off the ba
what is the reason that celebrities are being clamped down on in a way they were not previously? iii are being clamped down on in a way they were not previously? they were not previously? if you think in general they were not previously? if you think in general in they were not previously? if you think in general in china, - they were not previously? if you think in general in china, it s - they were not previously? if you think in general in china, it s a l think in general in china, it s a communist country, and life streaming is this new lucrative way of being able to influence how people spend their money. so someone like viya, who has this huge following and literally can attract young audiences and encourage them how to stay there that spend their money, it puts companies and positive lights and the influence that comes off the back of that that the government isn t too impressed with, and it wants to make sure that stars like this, much across the whole celebrity industry as