Xiao Feng returned to Shanghai and gave a speech to blockchain entrepreneurs, revealing that he had privately told Vitalik:

"We have the 11th Blockchain Conference in Shanghai in October, if you come and get arrested, I will accompany you in prison.

This is of course a joke — in fact, China's technology sector, government agencies, and developer community respect Ethereum's technology.

Your foundation should no longer distance itself from China. The legal team you established in Europe knows nothing about China, yet is making regulations that will only lead you further astray (implying that the EF European team once advised Ethereum not to come to China?)."