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[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

@AngelicaOung 现在正是北京赏牡丹花的季节。故宫后面景山公园现在应该有牡丹花节。或者可以去圆明园或一些知名庙宇赏牡丹花。

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

@east_asia_forum Link returning 404

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

“Nasdaq halts IPOs of small Chinese companies as it probes stock rallies” https://t.co/nOvYmzp0ei

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

Beijing

[Samantha Cristoforetti @AstroSamantha]

仰观宇宙之大，俯察品类之盛，所以游目骋怀，足以极视听之娱，信可乐也。
Looking up, I see the immensity of the cosmos; bowing my head, I look at the multitude of the world.
The gaze flies, the heart expands, the joy of the senses can reach its peak, & indeed, this is true happiness

[graham starr @GrahamStarr]

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." https://t.co/CI1WDV17oe

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

"Deloitte's Chinese affiliate asked some clients to select their own samples for testing and to prepare documentation that gave the appearance that Deloitte-China had tested the clients' financial statements and internal controls..."https://t.co/UwcmD91Qie

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

The best proxies for Chinese intervention in the foreign exchange market continue to confuse.

The PBOC balance sheet continues to suggest that China has stayed out of the market.

FX settlement suggests that the state banks are buying foreign exchange, not selling it

1/x

[FatMan @FatManTerra]

US law firm files class action against OKCoin on behalf of UST victims for negligent misrepresentation

OKCoin allegedly compared UST's stability to a fiat currency when marketing it to customers and rejected users' UST sell orders as it crashed

Filing: https://t.co/RXHHy7MplV

[𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 @NPC_Observer]

ICYMI: Last week we wrote about China's new law to tackle the country's rampant telecom and internet fraud https://t.co/N4HKWWfakc

[Nicole Wu @nicolekwu]

“Shoppers in Japan reject automation.” NYT

⁉️. That was 1975. A JP supermarket chain developed an experimental automated store w/ MITI. An idea ahead of its time but wasn’t well received due to its implementation. It looked like a big vending machine store. Pic: Asahi Shimbun/1

[Joseph Menn @josephmenn]

Cloudflare has just dropped #Kiwifarms. Story coming.

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

"If export surpluses are your business model, you are dependent on western currencies. Independence from the dollar and the euro requires a change in the business model."

https://t.co/DnrHLFAmyq

[Ghassan Moazzin @GhassanMoazzin]

Money changer, Beijing (ca. 1920s) — @vischina
https://t.co/2FY4AKPwO5

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

@cfmeyskens this isn't Mao's wife; this Jiang Qing is a Taiwanese actress n' ex-wife of Taiwanese musician Liu Jiachang.

[tracey xiang @TraceyXiang]

“...nearly half of Kbank’s deposits ...were for crypto trade at Upbit as of the end of March.”

[Zennon Kapron @ZennonKapron]

A tie-up with leading South Korean crypto exchange Upbit has been a key reason for K bank’s recent fast growth. However, amid the crypto bear market, hat reliance on Upbit could now become a liability for the digibank.

#crypto #fintech

https://t.co/zU0CvKqnws

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

One chart that shows a key to the US economy's huge innovative advantage over other nations. It shows the global flows of inventors into and out of various countries from 2000-2010. What this looks like from 2020-2030 will shape the future world economy. https://t.co/i4mRfct3ls

[Dr Maria Shagina @maria_shagina]

As major Western tech companies withdrew or suspended their operations in Russia, Moscow's high dependency on foreign hardware and software in the financial infrastructure became even more pronounced🧵

[Wu Blockchain @WuBlockchain]

According to Korean media TheElec, WhatsMiner has become Samsung's first customer of 3nm chips. However, it is reported that the production volume of 3nm is still small, and it is more of a trial run than mass production. https://t.co/Q8Z1wtyYwA