Men are stupid. And powerful men might be the stupidest of all.
Jensen Huang had everything. A 41-year marriage. Two kids. The most valuable company on Earth.. $4.5 trillion, built with his own hands over 33 years.
And he put all of it on the table for a woman US intelligence concluded was recruited by China's spy service to get close to him.
Read that again. She wasn't there because she liked him. If the intelligence is right, she was there because it was her job.
He's the one who had to confess in a memo to his own employees. He's the one under a board investigation, with Congress demanding answers and his stock in freefall. She hasn't been charged with anything, yet she should.
He risked the company, the family name, the whole legacy — for a woman who, by every account investigators have given, never liked him at all.
Jensen was stupid & Lori deserved better💔
A sitting Taiwanese legislator is accused of taking NT$170 million from the Chinese Communist Party, then voting and protesting on Beijing’s instructions.
On November 6, Taiwan’s High Prosecutors’ Office indicted independent legislator Kao Chin Su-mei (Ciwas Ali), an Atayal indigenous lawmaker, and three aides on national security and corruption charges. Prosecutors allege more than NT$170 million, about US$5.2 million, flowed from CCP sources between 2005 and 2016 to build organizations in Taiwan and shape legislative work in line with Beijing’s directives. They are seeking 14 years for Kao Chin and 15 for her former office director, Chang Chun-chieh.
The alleged method was “one set of people, two signs”: her tribal work team and congressional staff merged into one group. One aide, Lin I-chun, allegedly shuttled between Taiwan and mainland China, took instructions from CCP officials, and relayed them. Money allegedly arrived two ways: openly, as “donations” for indigenous community infrastructure that helped her re-election campaigns, and secretly, through relatives’ and friends’ accounts. Prosecutors say some of it paid for trips to China for “united front” training, described as cultivating a potential “fifth column” in indigenous areas.
The alleged quid pro quo: an anti-Japan press conference, pushing to cut budgets for Taiwan’s representative office in Japan, opposing arms purchases, influencing bills through her committee role, and backing curriculum changes. Two aides reportedly confessed and returned illicit gains.
Kao Chin denies everything. She says “not a single cent entered my pocket” and that her Yasukuni protests and opposition to arms purchases are long-held personal positions. She says prosecutors rushed the indictment to distract from failing to catch Chang, who jumped bail in a separate corruption case and reportedly fled Taiwan by boat in late October.
She is presumed innocent, and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office has dismissed such accusations as fabricated.
The question for the court is whether a lawmaker’s lifelong causes were her own, or were bought.
HK is the most magical place on earth to live IMO.
I went to uni and lived right here for ~4 years or so.
Imagine stepping outside your flat and walk 15 minutes east and you're in downtown Manhattan i.e Central with world-class shopping and nightlife.
Take a cab 15 minutes south and you have half a dozen good beaches including Repulse Bay and Shek O. You can go there at 2pm, sunbathe and swim in warm weather and be home by 6pm.
Take a short 20 minute metro ride across the harbour north and you're in a film set i.e Mongkok, with food on every corner and bright neon lighting up the night sky.
Half an hour west on the Airport Express and you're at the world's best airport with most of Asia within 5 hours flight away.
And the best part? Walk 45 minutes up and you're at Victoria Peak, the best city view in the world IMO, and the top of a mountain.
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