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Companies in China are equally committed.

Tencent, for example, of WeChat fame, had a negative free cash flow in Q2, their first negative flow in over a decade.

This year combined the Chinese hyperscalers will spend about $140 billion, which is a huge amount of money, more than double their spend last year, but less than is being spent by Meta alone.

They are not able to spend as much in absolute terms as the US hyperscalers, because, one, their businesses simply don't bring in anywhere near as much money and, two, the United States has a singular talent for financial engineering.

you so we've got all our softwares in place to show what we need to be buying out data is everything now years ago we didn't need data we just wrote on a piece of paper what stock we needed went to the cash and carry to the phone wholesalers We didn't have systems to tell us.

We didn't have LinkedIn, all these social media platforms, WhatsApp platforms, WeChat platforms.

What we have now, we didn't have Akinose.

It's so easy now.

I think China is the best in terms of the factories and the ability to be able to ship stuff the quickest.

Consultant John Smith-Riocco highlighted the convenience of Chinese super apps such as Alipay and WeChat, saying the United States lacks comparable platforms.

He says he had the fortune to travel to China once and he was able to do almost everything with the two apps.

New York residents also express hope that the two countries will maintain friendly ties and strengthen cooperation in areas such as trade and environmental protection.

Yeah.

The spyware hides inside tampered but fully functional copies of legitimate apps like Telegram and WeChat.

The researchers also found it operating inside a container app called Onion Box.

Onion Box.

Yeah, I know, but

it's Forex on WeChat.

It's not Forex anywhere else, so there must be a problem.

And Legend of Mushroom is not a Forex, right? Yeah, Legend of Mushroom.

yeah

whatever happens like they're going to have the very very top frontier level tools at a state level is a completely different question but these are things that are affecting absolutely everybody in the world if we're talking about like php i i don't know what proportion of chinese websites china doesn't rely on the web websites in quite the same way because a lot of stuff is within ecosystems like WeChat you know it kind of runs differently so I would say like this particular one is probably less of an issue for China but at the same time there will still be Chinese websites the government still use and if you look at government Chinese websites they look pretty old they're probably based on a pretty

old technology So I would like to clarify, and this is just my opinion, but I would like to clarify the 70% thing because statistics always lie.

And so 70% of websites are built on PHP is not the same as 70% of the internet traffic is going over websites that are built on PHP.

But who knows whether they can enforce it.

I feel like in the situation where this happens, then the seller's going to be like, yeah, yeah, I'll accept cash.

No, you can come back when WeChat's working again.

I'll take that watch.

Two-factor authentication, 2FA, is the extra code you get on your phone after typing your password, designed to make sure even if someone steals your password, they still can't get in.

uCreator specifically targets Telegram's 2FA passwords and can actually clone WeChat accounts.

It doesn't just read your codes, it can take over the account entirely.

The critical detail here is how it spreads.

I'm trying to learn a bit of Chinese and get the tones right, and it's quite difficult.

But we tried to give him some money at the end because we had some like, you know, we had Alipay and WeChat payment.

I was saying, no, give me your thing.

I'll scan it and send you a bit of money as a thank you.