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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/17/2025 10:31:44 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217588

we cannot TikTok here in HK for ByteDance made sure of that in HK we can Douyin, done by same ByteDance but for China the platform does feature dancing, but also PUSHES NEWS, and not necessarily in compliance with MSM, and that must be the issue

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/19/2025 1:29:57 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

re <<tik tok>> that is majority owned by Team USA and allegedly 'controlled' by the CCP / CPC is expanding investments in Team China AI / cloud infrastructure, so, presumably, China China China can get ahead in AI / cloud, am guessing But, China China China is already ahead, am told by experts scmp.com ByteDance to invest US$614 million in computing centre in China amid high AI demand Published: 7:00am, 15 Jan 2025 ... scroll down for fresh article some vlogs mattering to understanding, and once understood, GetMoreGold ai elon scmp.com ByteDance to invest US$614 million in computing centre in China amid high AI demand Published: 7:00am, 15 Jan 2025 The TikTok owner is building a site covering more than 200,000 square metres in Shanxi province as it expands aggressively in the AI sector ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is set to invest 4.5 billion yuan (US$614 million) in a new computing centre in the city of Datong, in northern Shanxi province, as China’s most valuable unicorn boosts computing power to accommodate its popular artificial intelligence (AI) services. The technology giant, known for its popular short video apps, has been aggressively expanding in the AI sector. Its ChatGPT-like service Doubao has become one of China’s leading AI platforms, and the company last month unveiled updates for a range of AI models and products. A document published on the Shanxi government website confirmed the approval of the Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II Phase project. Operated by ByteDance-controlled Volcano Cloud (Datong) Technology, the project will cover 205,013 square metres (2,206,742 sq ft), equivalent to the area of nearly 30 football pitches. The development will include six two-storey data centre buildings, one six-storey integrated facility, as well as other supporting infrastructure. The centre is expected to house 15,604 12-kilowatt server cabinets and 510 network cabinets. The provincial government first released a detailed blueprint for the project in July. High-performance computing centres are crucial for training large language models (LLMs), managing extensive data processing, and ensuring the scalability and efficiency of AI-driven services. Despite US export restrictions that have limited access to the world’s advanced semiconductors, China’s Big Tech firms are leveraging local chips to enhance computing capacity. Even as Doubao’s popularity as surged, with 51 million active users, ByteDance has not yet announced any plans to monetise the AI service, even though it is costly to train LLMs. ByteDance’s computing centre project is located in Guangling county’s Economic Development Zone Big Data Park in eastern Datong. Although not among the province’s most economically developed areas, the region has been actively promoting its big data industry in recent years. According to local government documents, the first phase of the computing centre involves an investment of about 2.8 billion yuan. This phase includes four data centre buildings and supporting facilities. Construction began in May 2023 and is nearing completion. ByteDance established Volcano Cloud (Datong) Technology in December 2022, and it currently has registered capital of 2.36 billion yuan, according to Tianyancha, a Chinese corporate data tracker. Data from China’s Ministry of Natural Resources shows that the company in December acquired more than 13 hectares of land in Guangling for 59.12 million yuan. Shanxi, traditionally known for its coal industry, has recently focused on building up its big data sector. According to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s Computing Power Index, Datong ranked third in the country last year for computing power, following Langfang and Zhangjiakou in Hebei province. A local media report in October revealed that by 2024, the Volcano Taihang Computing Centre had reported cumulative investments of 1.4 billion yuan, accounting for 89.4 per cent of the industrial investment in the Guangling Economic Development Zone.

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/19/2025 5:50:33 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217588

Forget <<tik tok>> Far more exciting is DJI removed geofencing within US started 13th January last week, to be in compliance with US Congress wish and avoid issues DJI stopped all service activities for its drones within USA domain include removing air-walls for all sites designated as ‘sensitive’. The drone users are now personally responsible for safety by warning of fly app. Given such and so, the Trump’s inauguration must be held indoors because outdoors no longer deemed safe, is my understanding

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/19/2025 8:20:46 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217588

btw, Nixon-ing by the Trump is at least conceivable now, for my understanding is that the Trump and Xi shall get together to powwow about something or other even as am not in the know what powwow can possibly be if all the Trump wish to say to Xi is "fight fight fight". Am told that the meeting shall on this side of June 2025, in Beijing. Perhaps, just maybe, who can know, the Trump shall visit Huawei, meet the founder Mr Ren and the founder's daughter Ms Meng and issue pardon, and then bend the knee, admit wrong, ask for forgiveness, and blame Team Pompeo / Bolton. Perhaps gold shall hit US$ 6,000+ before 2028, do 22% per annum gain - not outrageous. wsj.com Trump Told Advisers He Wants to Visit China as President edition.cnn.com Trump privately expresses interest in visiting China english.news.cn Trump says he wants to visit China after taking office: WSJ report

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/19/2025 8:49:51 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217588

btw, just-saying, and 'nuff-said, the timing is exquisitely precise, a bullseye, and really ought to be a criminal offence, but am not qualified to kibitzer and so defer to your take zerohedge.com In Her Last Official Act, Yellen Warns US Will Hit Debt Ceiling One Day After Trump Inauguration BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, JAN 18, 2025 - 10:17 PM Back in the last week of December, when the stock market was desperately trying to reverse the slump of the Santa rally which prevented stocks from closing 2024 at an all time high, we warned that a bigger threat than a modest 1% market drawdown was looming: the countdown to the next debt ceiling crisis. We quoted Democratic operative - and the only US government official who has personally overseen total debt increase by a staggering $15 trillion under her watch at both the Fed and Treasury - Janet Yellen... [url=][/url] ... the said the United States would hit its statutory debt ceiling around the middle of January, at which point the Treasury would resort to “extraordinary measures” to prevent the government from defaulting on its obligations. While it may not feel like it, we are now in mid-January, and late on Friday, Janet Yellen, in what is almost certainly the last ever official announcement of her long and undistinguished political career, said that the US would hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated, and that the Treasury will launch “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default. After a previous 20-month suspension of the debt limit expired earlier this month, Yellen wrote in a letter to bipartisan congressional leaders Friday she was advising them “of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin using on January 21.” That will be a day after the Biden administration leaves office. “I respectfully urge Congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States.” The letter marked the second notification in the latest tussle over the debt limit, which kicked back in as of Jan. 2, and the last ever for Yellen before the Trump administration takes office Jan. 20. Congress had suspended the ceiling in 2023 after a close-fought battle by lawmakers to avert a default on federal obligations. The limit is currently set at about $36 trillion. [url=][/url] While some strategists anticipate an easier path to an agreement to suspend or lift the cap given Republicans’ unified control of Congress and the White House once Trump takes office again on Jan. 20, until that action is taken the Treasury will need to deploy measures used repeatedly over the decades to avoid breaching the limit. As Bloomberg reminds us, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Trump’s nominee to succeed Yellen as Treasury chief, Scott Bessent, vowed that there’d be no default on his watch... which is glaringly obvious. Which nominee for Treasury secretary would ever say out loud: "Yes, I fully intend on watching the US default under my watch." While nothing new to those familiar with the periodic song and dance when the US enters its debt ceiling crunch, Yellen advised that the Treasury’s extraordinary measures would begin by redeeming a portion of, and suspending full investments in, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. It will also suspend additional investments of amounts credited to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund. Those funds will be made whole after Congress acts on the debt ceiling, Yellen said. She gave no indication how long the accounting measures and Treasury’s cash balance would last. “The period of time that extraordinary measures may last is subject to considerable uncertainty, including the challenges of forecasting the payments and receipts of the US government months into the future,” she wrote. One thing we do know, is that the Treasury currently has $680 billion in cash in the Treasury General Account which will now be drained at an accelerated pace, and potentially hit $0 by the summer, until a new debt ceiling deal is reached (it will be, it's just a matter of when). What is just as notable is that as we first described it at the start of 2021, this rapid drain of Treasury cash serves to goose risk assets aggressively, and according to some strategists, has an even greater impact on prices than the Fed's QE, since there is no new net debt issuance for the duration of the debt ceiling suspension. [url=][/url] And speaking of debt issuance suspension, total US debt will now remain frozen at around $36.2 trillion for the next ~6 months, until the next debt deal is reached, at which point the debt issuance will "catch up" to where it was supposed to be, and surge by almost $2 trillion overnight. [url=][/url] The above assumes of course that after the requisite fire and brimstone, a new debt deal will be reached. Naturally, should the Treasury become unable to issue fresh debt and then run out of cash, the US government would be in danger of defaulting on some financial obligations. Wall Street is already trying to handicap how long the US government has before it’s unable to pay its bills because of the newly re-imposed debt ceiling. That so-called X-date has been estimated by some strategists as looming around July or August. In the event of congressional standoffs, investors tend to dump the Treasury bills most vulnerable to a potential default in favor of securities maturing before or after the X-date, creating a kink in the curve. Right now, though, the bill market is showing no signs of angst, given the uncertainties about the outlook.

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (210323)	1/19/2025 8:54:08 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

love it, either a rug-pull or a to-the-moon, do not know about use-case, but should not matter it being zerohedge.com Trump Unveils "Official" MemeCoin Late Friday; 12 Hours Later It Is Up 16,000% To $30 Billion BY TYLER DURDEN SUNDAY, JAN 19, 2025 - 11:30 AM Just hours after Gary Gensler left the SEC headquarter for the last time in his life... ... Trump showed the world what an outsized role crypto, and certainly memecoins, will have in his administration. After nearly a year of frenzied speculation which of the dozens of Trump-linked memecoins the 47th president will pick as his own, just before 10pm ET on Friday night - and just two days before his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States - Trump stunned the world when he unveiled on his Truth Social and X accounts, his “official” meme coin, TRUMP... ... which in the 12 hours since its unveiling has surged to a $30 billion market capitalization, roughly three times bigger than Trump's other momentum chasing venture, DJT (whose market cap is $8.7 billion and has roughly the same amount of revenue or cash flow as the meme coin) as part of an exponential move that has seen its market cap rise (and occasionally fall) by a billion dollars every few minutes. “My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. The token started trading at an opening price of $0.1824, but within 12 hours had jumped over 15,000%, trading at roughly $30 as of 10:00am ET, 12 hours after its launch. Its market cap stood at ~$30 billion at the time. [url=][/url] Initially, the crypto community initially voiced concerns about the token’s legitimacy, with some warning of a possible hack or social engineering scheme. According to blockchain engineer cygaar, the project’s official website mirrors those of Trump’s previous NFT collections and suggested that “either this is the greatest cyber heist of all time, or this is legitimate.”However, as Trump’s posts remained online, and with Polymarket data suggesting only a 10% chance of account compromise, skepticism began to subside, pushing the price of the token further up. The token’s explosive growth has also drawn concerns regarding its allocation. “80% of the token supply is locked in a multisignature wallet, amounting to $3 billion controlled by the creator, who also added $40 million in liquidity,” Conor Grogan, head of product business operations at Coinbase, said in a post on X, adding that the project was seeded with millions of dollars of funds from Binance and Gate, two exchanges that don’t serve US customers. Other analysts noted that 80% of the token’s circulating supply is allocated to Fight Fight Fight LLC and CIC Digital LLC, entities linked to the Trump Organization, with only 20% of the supply split equally between public investors and liquidity. While Trump controls the vast majority of the tokens, they remain locked which means the US president is unlikely to "rug" millions of his most ardent fans... at least for now. Meanwhile, amid the panicked buying frenzy, the market value of the token is now $30BN, meaning it has surpassed such veteran cryptocurrencies as TRON, Avalanche, Chainlink and Shiba Inu. [url=][/url] Separately, while the Solana-linked memecoin has pushed the market cap of Solana - a cryptocurrency conceived with the purpose of create such shitcoin pump and dump schemes - to a record $118 billion, there has been an offsetting drain in the price of Ethereum, which has served as the primary source of liquidity, and whose market cap has dropped by 5% overnight, losing about $240BN in value. [url=][/url] TRUMP's launch comes as the president-elect continues to align himself with cryptocurrency initiatives. Once an outspoken crypto-skeptic, he made a U-turn during his election campaign and pledged to reshape the US cryptocurrency landscape to make the country the “crypto capital of the planet.” Paul Atkins, Trump’s pick to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is expected to spearhead these efforts. A known crypto advocate and former SEC commissioner, Atkins will replace Gary Gensler, who has been criticized for his crackdown on the industry. Finally, while many are delighted to jump on board of the biggest momentum trade in history which is eclipsing even such social media phenomena as Gamestop and AMC, some such as Bloomberg ETF guru are voicing skepticism that this particular foray by Trump "seems exploitative" and is an "unforced error in the making". Whether he is right or not will depend on how long before this particular bubble bursts.