Going into 1997 a fair number of upper and upper middle class people in Hong Kong did leave to other countries out of fear of Communist rule. The former manifested in the form of the old Jewish shipping clans relocating to Israel. The latter was selective Chinese immigration to Vancouver, Sydney, and London. The British returned to the UK.Among those who stayed, most were highly bullish on the Chinese economy and HK’s role in it. They were proven right over the next two decades. In 1996, Shui On Group bough ...

British Hong Kong was an apartheid state with curfews for Chinese, and there was never any instrument resembling representative democracy much less direct democracy. To the extent that any Chinese ethnicity people in HK are nostalgic for this period, they are probably solely nostalgic that the gap between HK and mainland wealth was much bigger then than it is now. ...

RT mable.sol (join our TG community! (@mablejiang)unpacking "chinamaxxing" and what you can do with it"chinamaxxing" formed four echo chambers, if you manage to understand all of them and react fast with careful thoughts, you'll have your once in a lifetime opportunity (my recommended action items are at the end)first off, the four echo chambers that are somewhat interconnected yet clashing are:1. the informed version of Chinamaxxing: Chinese robotics AI have a lot more data to train with / LLM per token co ...

新年快乐 https://t.co/c3Fgt38MxO ...

Wasian defection theory is the frontline of the new cold war, Eileen is Kasparov and Alysa is Karpov ...

Eileen Gu just needs to start dating a European F1 driver and stop commenting on American politics, then 99% of Americans would say ok fair enough, it’s not that deep ...

Crypto might meaningfully outperform Mag7 next few years because it is the only vertical of Western tech that has any kind of moat vs China ...

RT Kallisti.cash 🍏 (@kzKallisti)Bitcoin Cash in 2026 is NOT the BCH you remember from 2017.You think it's just about the block size? That's just the tip of the iceberg.Every year since the chain split, BCH has thoughtfully delivered upgrades that unlock the full potential of Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.Early BCH (ABC era):2017: Preserve "Vanilla" Bitcoin (No SegWit!)2018: 32mb max blocksize, OP_CAT, OP_CHECKDATASIG (first Script restoration)2019: Schnorr signatures2020: ASERT Difficulty A ...

You met me at a very Korean time in my life https://t.co/pfcsb6cKMl ...

Not sure sbf should be pardoned but I do think he should raise for and manage a venture fund from prison ...