Foxconn founder Terry Gou quits Taiwan presidential race

Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of contract manufacturer Foxconn, has ended his campaign to be elected as president of Taiwan. A late Friday Facebook post confirmed the end of his campaign, which earlier last week secured sufficient signatures from voters to allow Gou to appear on the ballot. Gou ended his campaign just as …

[Catkin]

CBDCs

It's notable that South Korea is going down the route of internally restricted tokens right out of the gate. Depending on how much you trust a government implementing their use, CBDCs with per-token restrictions and/or expiry dates (though I couldn't find whether this CBDC features the latter at this stage) are either a fine tool to make welfare payments all the more efficient at serving the people or a highly effective tool for precisely controlling dissent; though these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

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Just a coincidence

>>> Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of contract manufacturer Foxconn, has ended his campaign to be elected as president of Taiwan.

Oh look, the CCP will also end its tax investigations on Foxconn and drop the huge fines and confiscation threats.