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Coincidentally, a Stanford Chinese American scientist, Prof. Shoucheng Zhang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoucheng_Zhang), who discovered the Quantum Spin Hall effect that plays a big part in the recent Intel announcement of the next generation of chip design, was found dead on Stanford campus on Dec. 1st. Before he's death, Prof. Zhang went together with Huawei's CFO to attend a dinner in Argentina on Dec. 1st.

Basically, after that dinner in Argentina, one of them is dead, another is arrested.

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There is no way for all the events you prescribed to happen in one day across four different countries.

I'm sorry to hear the loss of Prof. Zhang, however I suspect that his death may have had something to do with his heavy investment in some questionable blockchain startups.

>however I suspect that his death may have had something to do with his heavy investment in some questionable blockchain startups

Why do you suspect that?

>His family said in a statement that he died after "a battle with depression."

Sources about this? Can't find anything that corroborates what you're saying about them being at the G20

And Coincidentally, ASML ( The only manufacture of EUV Equipment in the World used by every Leading node Fab ) had a Fire Hazard which causes Product Delays.

I don't know about you, but these are not an accident, there are links in the Chain, the work of a single organisation, the Syndicate. A rogue nation trying to do destroy the system that created them, regardless who is in the way.

An Anti - IMF.

Ok small jokes only. But both pieces of news, the professor and CFO arrested are blocked in WeChat and Weibo so no one knew about it.

> But both pieces of news, the professor and CFO arrested are blocked in WeChat and Weibo so no one knew about it.

Stop it.

https://imgur.com/a/X4tTzpb

Did you try sending it on WeChat ? All I got was content was blocked.

Edit: I tried again, turns out the Link I sent was blocked, but the news is in the wild now.

Suicide apparently https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2018/12/06/renowed-chinese...

That's not a trustworthy news source. Why would a renowned scientist doing world changing research commit suicide suddenly?

My speculation is that he lost a lot of money on the crypto market.

https://medium.com/blockchain-connect-conference/backing-the...

That isn't unprecedented sadly, Wallace Carothers [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers], the inventor of nylon committed suicide despite becoming head researcher of DuPont. Despite admitting serious red flags that could harm his ability to work the CEO came out to personally persuade him. In the great depression no less.

Of course neither is murdering the turbulent.

Many people at the top of their field suffer from depression. Floer was a 28 year old tenured professor at Berkeley when he killed himself.

Holly ssss, this went wild. I hope it is only a coincidence.

The chinese chat rooms are going wild with rumors about the cinnection between the arrest, the dinner, the suicide and the fire.

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