REUTERS- Six companies launch Hong Kong offerings worth up to $2.5 billion
Hong Kong IPOs and second listings have raised $21.5 billion so far this year, more than double the same period in 2025, according to LSEG data to June 11.
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Taiwan Weighs Bitcoin Reserves To Protect $602B From China
Taiwan is exploring Bitcoin as a potential reserve asset amid rising geopolitical tensions with China.
Legislator Ko Ju-Chun presented a proposal urging officials to consider allocating a portion of the nation's $602 billion foreign reserves to Bitcoin.
The proposal argues Bitcoin could provide diversification and seizure resistance during a potential crisis.
China pushed the line again!
For the first time, Chinese vessels entered prohibited waters around Taiwan-administered Taiping Island, only to be expelled by Taiwan’s coast guard.
Not a routine patrol; another act to challenge the status quo.
A 92-year-old woman escaped her nursing home in eastern China by climbing a 2.15-meter gate.
In just 24 seconds, she pulled herself up, swung over the bars, and landed on the other side.
In reality, modern Chinese people don't hate Japan; it's the CCP that incites them to hate Japan. Otherwise, the Chinese would hate the CCP itself! Modern Japan is not the same as pre-World War II Japan, and the Japanese people are not the same as they were 70 years ago. Current Japan is the best country in Asia!
Stanford University is actively studying Chinese influence operations while pocketing millions from the exact CCP operatives running them. A whistleblower leak published by the Stanford Review has exposed this massive national security blind spot, revealing a restricted $3 million gift to the prestigious Hoover Institution from Chen Yuan, chairman of a CCP political warfare organization.
This 2025 donation was uniquely routed through a San Francisco law firm to obscure its true source, directly overlapping with Hoover’s sensitive, taxpayer-funded research security programs. Chen Yuan’s organization is subordinate to a Chinese military intelligence body. Stanford insisted it performs rigorous due diligence on international gifts but completely declined to comment on the specifics of this transaction.
The leaked documents expose a sprawling network of Chinese funding flowing into Stanford's critical tech and engineering departments. Major contributors include NetEase CEO William Ding, who gave $25.1 million, and United Front affiliate Diana Chen, who gave $6.2 million. The university also accepted $1.5 million from the State Grid Corporation of China, along with hundreds of thousands from blacklisted entities like Huawei and PLA subcontractor BOE Technology.
Many of these funded projects intersect directly with critical technologies targeted by Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy. By cashing checks from the very elites executing global sharp power campaigns, elite American academia has created a dangerous contradiction that allows foreign adversaries to buy unparalleled access to the heart of Western innovation.
#StanfordLeak #CCPInfluence #NationalSecurity #HooverInstitution #TechWar #AcademicFreedom #ChinaFunding #UnitedFront
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China’s seizure and building of structures at Scarborough Shoal are acts of aggression. The international community must oppose these acts, with force if necessary.
The Philippines is seeking closer ties with Taiwan and stronger military links with nations focused on deterring China’s “nefarious plans,” according to the Southeast Asian nation’s defense chief https://t.co/gJe7TkLFJa
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has strongly protested Japan-Philippines' maritime boundary negotiations, declaring them "completely illegal and invalid!" (Although this has nothing to do with China.) It seems to be highly effective.
ELON MUSK: “FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS AMERICA IS LIKELY TO WIN THE RACE IN AI. THEN IT WILL BE A FUNCTION OF WHO CONTROLS THE AI CHIP FABRICATION. IF MORE OF THE FACTORIES ARE OWNED BY CHINA THEN CHINA WILL WIN."
"RIGHT NOW ALL THE CHIP FABS ARE IN TAIWAN. 100%."
"IF CHINA INVADES TAIWAN IN THE NEAR TERM THE WORLD WILL BE CUT OFF FROM ADVANCED AI CHIPS."
"I THINK IT'S ESSENTIAL FOR NATIONAL SECURITY THAT WE BEGIN MANUFACTURING OUR OWN CHIPS IN THE US.”
Between 2017-2019, China sent 2 million Muslims (including half a million children) to internment camps, where they were forced to drink alcohol and eat pork to ‘deprogram’ from Islam.
China officially considers Islam a mental illness.
Why does no one call China Islamophobic?
China is seeing massive capital outflows:
An estimated $1 trillion in capital flowed out of China in 2025, the largest annual outflow since records began in 2006.
Capital outflows have more than DOUBLED since 2021.
This comes as Chinese investors have moved funds into overseas equities through offshore brokers, particularly into the US and Hong Kong markets.
In response, China imposed restrictions on cross-border stock trading on May 22nd, ordering all illegal accounts to be liquidated within 2 years.
Furthermore, the country fined three offshore online brokers, Hong Kong-based Futu, Singapore-based Tiger Brokers and Longbridge Securities, a combined $330 million for offering Chinese investors access to foreign stock markets without regulatory approval.
China is tightening capital controls as outflows intensify.
As a Korean, this is very sad.
According to a local Korean media report released today, LG Electronics has reportedly explored the possibility of selling its TV business to China’s Hisense.
The Korean TV industry has collapsed.