Scammers have upgraded their tricks again: they collect your voiceprint, use AI to synthesize your voice, and then disguise themselves as you to call your relatives and friends.
Guo Tao, a police officer from the News Center of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Office, teaches everyone a “three-second silence method”: When you receive a call from an unknown number, if the other party keeps silent, you should also refrain from speaking first. Then silently count one, two, three in your head and wait quietly for three seconds. If the other party continues not to make a sound, you should hang up promptly. If after connecting, it turns out to be an AI robot impersonating a so-called customer service representative, you should likewise stay silent and hang up immediately. Otherwise, the scammer’s system will capture your voice, activate fraudulent scripts, transfer you to a human operator, and collect more of your voice samples to clone your voiceprint, subsequently impersonating you to borrow money or request transfers from your relatives and friends.
Looking forward to listen to what retired Singtao Newspaper West Coast Editor has to say tonight about “Your life is in your own hands, not control by any God” 期待聽聽退休星島日報西岸編輯梁建鋒今晚點講『我命由我不由天』. 我，蔡永強完全同意他的標題！我們天天都聽到怪天怪地就是不怪自己的人，非常可笑的現象.
The 「Hand in Hand to Realize Dreams」cross-strait compatriots exchange and seminar in Urumqi, Xinjiang, and gathering together with Professor Qiu Yi, Comrade Su Heng, Comrade Lin Mingzheng, and many like-minded scholars, experts, and opinion leaders from both sides of the strait, I am especially happy and especially energized! 在新疆烏魯木齊 「攜手圓夢」兩岸同胞交流研討活動，與邱毅教授、蘇恆同志、林明正同志還有兩岸許多志同道合的學者專家、意見領袖共聚一堂，格外高興，格外提氣！
If your wealth can’t keep up with your understanding, it’s actually normal to die! From Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang to Emperor Xuan Liu Xun of the Han Dynasty, there was always a “Lingyi policy,” which meant that the emperor would set up counties and towns next to his tomb, and then relocate wealthy households and powerful clans from the localities to be beside the emperor’s tomb in Guanzhong. 財富跟不上認知，死了其實也正常！漢朝從高祖劉邦到漢宣帝劉詢時期，一直都有一個「陵邑政策」，也就是皇帝會在陵墓旁邊設置縣邑，然後把地方上的富戶、豪族，遷到關中皇帝的陵寢旁邊。
Among these, the tombs of the first seven emperors all had lingyi beside them. Among them, Changling, Anling, Yangling, Maoling, and Pingling were the most famous, and these are what history calls the Five Ling.
Historically, the youths of the Five Ling were synonymous with spoiled rich kids, and the heroes of the Five Ling also referred to people who established great achievements. This shows that the migrants moved into the Five Ling did not live badly. Turning a local tyrant into a capital resident, then giving them the opportunity to associate with the powerful and take their lives to the next level—how could this not look like a good thing? But why did such an order still have to be enforced by the emperor, and why did it only last for more than 100 years before it could no longer be carried out?
Because when the wealthy households and powerful clans in the localities were farther from the emperor, although their lives might not have had so many opportunities to establish merit and build careers, and their families could not rise to the next level, they still lived comfortably in the localities. Locally, they were the true local emperors, with money and connections, and anyone who came had to give them face. The saying “Rather offend a two-thousand-dan official than a powerful family” is exactly this principle.
But once they moved into Guanzhong, not to mention that they could not make too many small moves, even the wealth they brought over would slowly be divided up by the local entrenched powers of Guanzhong. This was a tacit hidden rule between the emperor and the people of Guanzhong.
Some so-called rich people today have a level of understanding even lower than that of the local tyrants of the Western Han two thousand years ago. After all, the Western Han local tyrants could not resist the emperor’s will, while modern local tyrants actively go over to be harvested by others. You emigrate to a new place—do you think you can preserve your wealth?
You have no connections here, no industry, so your wealth is merely floating wealth. Others will naturally squeeze you however they want, slowly turning your property into their property. This is actually also a kind of tacit hidden rule.
Several major immigrant countries in the world welcome rich immigrants. Are they all living Lei Fengs? Of course they have taken a fancy to your money. As long as you bring your money over, they will naturally, under the name of integrating into the local area, eat away your wealth bit by bit.
The reason China can produce so many foolish rich people whose understanding cannot keep up is, on the one hand, indeed because the poor suddenly became rich and their level of understanding is low, while the West is also too good at fooling people. The so-called spirit of contract is deeply rooted in people’s hearts, and slogans like “The wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter” have fooled these people into losing their minds. On the other hand, it is also related to China’s too-fast development. In the forty years of reform and opening up, much of the risen capital is bloody, and now it faces being settled.
In other words, today’s rich people are actually very anxious. If they stay in China, their property will most likely not be preserved, so they hold onto a fluke mentality and think of going abroad. With money they can live comfortably, at least for the rest of their lives, they can still live comfortably.
But this is also a delusion. Although the struggle in China is intense, at least there is still a bottom line. In terms of economic crimes, unless it is a kind of gang boss who has taken human lives, purely economic problems have in a certain sense already been exempted from the death penalty. Xu Jiayin made such a huge mess and still did not receive a bullet, which is clear proof.
But for foreign countries, laws and such are just pleasant-sounding talk. When it really comes to a fight, there is completely no bottom line. If you are also a local tyrant with influence, that is still one thing—everyone can have room for compromise. But if you are a foreign race, in a place where racial discrimination is severe, others can kill you and not even be condemned. Why wouldn’t they do it?
Video: How some Western media used a Washington DC house to smear China’s disaster response. Watch the full conversation and share your thoughts in the comments. Guest: Nury Vittachi, Editor of Hong Kong’s “Friday” news project. 影片有中英文字幕: 部分西方媒體如何利用華盛頓一棟房屋抹黑中國的災難應對。觀看完整對話，並在評論區分享你的看法。嘉賓：Nury Vittachi，香港「Friday」新聞項目編輯
What happens when tragedy becomes a media narrative? In this latest edition of Pointcast, Liu Xin speaks with Hong Kong-based author and journalist Nury Vittachi about media coverage of the devastating landslides near Gyirong Port in southwest Xizang, China, along the China-Nepal border. As rescue efforts continued following the disaster, some Western media reports raised questions about the scale of the damage and accused China of suppressing information. Liu Xin and Nury Vittachi take a closer look at these claims, examining what may have been overlooked in the reporting and how tragedy can become entangled with broader political narratives about China. What did the media reports miss? What do the facts on the ground tell us? Watch the full conversation and share your thoughts in the comments.
BREAKING NEWS: THREE SENTENCED IN HONG KONG TODAY: Three people were sentenced to up to seven years three months in prison in Hong Kong today, for conspiracy to overthrow the government by incitement to subversion, an act which is criminal everywhere.
The main spotlight is on a man named Lee Cheuk-yan, a “Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner”.
I’m going to tell you five things about Lee Cheuk-yan that will probably not be revealed anywhere else except in this report.
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