I dont think you need to do the forum posts but you need to request unlocking every two days and pray it works. Supposedly at 00:00 chinese local time for any chances of getting permission. Took me several months of trying non continuously.

So you were actually successful in the end? I've given up on it.

With the time difference I had to do it at 3am or something ridiculous like that.

They have effectively disabled bootloader unlocking. They can kindly fuck off.

Compared to my previous Xiaomi, which required an account of a certain age and active phone use. But after that the unlocking just worked.

This was before the new system, yes.

Wow, that's insane. Well done.

I had to do something similar with my old HTC m7, but nowhere this.... ridiculous.