How China's Secret Network Got Around America's AI Chip Ban

Hello, everyone. Welcome. How's everyone's week so far? Good? Excellent. All right. Let's meet some of China's top chip smugglers tonight. All right. Since 2022, the US has spent enormous resources trying to keep Nvidia's most advanced AI chips out of China's hands. Washington imposed some of the toughest export controls in history. Nvidia was even forced to design lower performance chips specifically for the Chinese market. But behind the scenes, Beijing had already found a way. An international smuggling operation stretching across the US, Taiwan, and China, and Singapore has been quietly operational to smuggle these high-end chips. The network included a mysterious Chinese financier with ties to the Chinese military, a senior boss from Taiwan's mafia, a former world champion, gamer, and two executives working for our technology companies in Taiwan. Their mission was simple, get Nvidia's most advanced AI chips into China. Why? Well, because research institutes and defense industry in China remain desperately for the world's most powerful AI chips for their military AI, weapons development, and the next generation defense research. So how did they do it? The answer is stranger than fiction. The story began when Taiwan's Coast Guard launched a routine drugging investigation. And what they discovered was surprising. They didn't even believe what they would discover. It exposed one of the most sophisticated chip smuggling operations ever uncovered. So we have to go back to May 2026. That's when Taiwan's Coast Guard, it's called Taiwan Coast Guard Investigation Unit in Okinawa, received intelligence tip about an international smuggling ring. Based on past experience, investigators assumed they were dealing with the usual suspects, guns, narcotics, or contraband cigarettes. They spent months conducting surveillance before identifying two large secret warehouses, one in Keelung, and the other in Taipei's Neihu District. Then on May 20th, officers moved in. As they stormed the warehouses, they didn't find narcotics. Instead, they saw this. I actually have a picture for you. They saw this. Let me come back. Row after row of massive boxes. They were top-of-the-line AI servers assembled by San Jose-based Supermicro Computers, one of the world's leading manufacturers of AI servers. Inside each server were Amadeus' most advanced AI chips, the very chip banned for export to China. Investigators immediately realized they had stumbled onto something far bigger than an ordinary smuggling case. The 50 servers alone were worth roughly 22 million U.S. dollars. The Keelung District Prosecutor's Office quickly took over the investigation and established a special task force. What they uncovered shocked everyone. They discovered a secret chip silk road, and it had been operating quietly in Taiwan, the U.S., and China for nearly three years. No one even knows exactly how many chips had already been smuggled into China. The investigators estimated that the network had earned at least 300 U.S. million dollars in illegal profits. They're not Taiwan dollars, they're U.S. dollars. 300 million. Organized crime bosses abandoned drug trafficking and switched to smuggling AI chips because the profits are even higher. On China's black market, Amadeus' top AI chips can sell for several times and sometimes even dozens of times their original price. But perhaps the most unbelievable part of this case wasn't the smuggling itself, it was Taiwan's legal system. After prosecutors arrested the suspects and prepared to ask the court to keep them in custody, they searched through Taiwan's trade act and criminal code, and to their surprise, they discovered that Taiwan currently has no law that specifically makes it a crime to smuggle U.S. restricted AI chips into China. The export restrictions were imposed by the U.S. Taiwan's own legal framework had never fully caught up, therefore creating a legal gray area. So instead of charging the suspects for the chip smuggling, prosecutors in Taiwan had to rely on other offenses, such as document fraud, just to keep the members of the network behind bars while the investigation continued. Then came the real breakthrough. Investigators recovered deleted messages from the mobile phones of three low-level IT workers arrested in Keelung, and they reconstructed those conversations. Then an enormous underground network stretching across Taiwan, the U.S. and China slowly emerged from the shadows. At the center of it all stood one woman. Who is she? And how was she able to commend hundreds of millions of dollars, it could even be billions of dollars, while moving effortlessly between China's military establishment, Taiwan's underworld, and the legitimate business world? As prosecutors and investigators launched a second round of raids in late June and early July, that's fairly recent, there were five key members behind this billion-dollar chip smuggling operation finally came into focus. At the center of the operation was a Chinese woman whose real name is not disclosed. She's the mastermind of the entire operation, the person pulling the strings behind the scenes. She's described as a Chinese national in her 50s, who used the alias Dai Fei. Now, this woman's background is extremely sensitive. Investigators believe she has ties to the Chinese military. And according to them, the investigators, this woman Dai Fei has one mission, build an overseas supply chain for advanced computing power, no matter the cost. And she isn't short of money. She seems to have unlimited financial resources. And she knew the underground money laundry networks and gray areas of international trade inside and out. But there's one problem. As a Chinese citizen, she couldn't simply place orders with American companies, nor could she personally receive the shipments outside China. I mean, she couldn't go outside China to receive the shipments. So she recruited the second key player, who is a senior member of Taiwan's organized crime group called Bamboo Union, Zhu Lian Bang, and his name is Wang Kaiping. I have a picture of him. I'm sorry, he's super micro. Yeah, this is the mafia boss or one of the mafia bosses in Taiwan. So the woman Dai Fei, the mastermind, funneled enormous sums of money to the mafia boss through underground financial channels. And Wang Kaiping's job was to build the operation on the ground in Taiwan. Now you may be wondering, what role did organized crime actually play? It wasn't about gangsters carrying guns or swinging knives. Actually, organized crime organizations in Taiwan are very powerful. They used their unique connections to recruit people inside Taiwan's technology industry, build secure logistics networks, and create layers of protection for the operation. And Wang Kaiping became the bridge that connected Chinese funding, organized crime, and Taiwan's high-tech sector into one tightly coordinated network. Now, they had the money, they had the local infrastructure, but the biggest challenge still remained. How do you actually buy those chips from the U.S.? The U.S. Commerce Department isn't naive. Any company trying to purchase these strategic AI chips must pass an extremely rigorous review called KYC review, Know Your Customer Review. What does your company do? Who owns it? Where will these chips be installed? Those are exactly the kinds of questions U.S. regulators ask before approving a sale. So to get past that layer of scrutiny, Dai Fei and Wang Kaiping recruited a third key player. And this person allegedly is the head of an American technology company whose identity isn't disclosed. And his background was unlike anything investigators expected. He had once been a world champion gamer. Think about that. A world champion gamer with international recognition. Who later founded a technology company in the U.S. When this company placed orders with Supermicro, here we go, which is one of the world's leading AI server manufacturers, then the explanation sounded perfectly reasonable, right? You have a world champion gamer with international reputation who has this U.S. company, and for them to place an order of one of the world's leading AI server or servers, then it makes sense. Business-wise, it sounds legitimate. And according to Taiwanese investigators, the servers were supposedly intended for gaming-related research and development, as well as high-end graphics rendering. On paper, everything appeared completely legitimate. As a result, this former champion gamer who has a company in the U.S. successfully used his public profile to obtain approval to purchase the servers from Supermicro's U.S. headquarters. But getting the equipment out of America was only half of the battle. Who would receive it? Who would move it? That's where insiders became essential, which brings us to the fourth and the fifth key player, the insiders inside Taiwan's technology industry. The next two players are at the center of this part of the operation in Taiwan. I don't have pictures, but there are two men, Wang Xiangyi, who was a sales manager at Supermicro Taiwan, and then Lu Yangkai, the general manager of Qingyun Technology, or in English it's called AOpen Inc., which is a publicly listed Taiwanese company that served as a Supermicro distributor. So why would two Taiwanese executives with reputable jobs risk everything to be involved in a smuggling business? The answer is simple, money. The commissions and profit margins offered by the Chinese woman Dai Fei allegedly were so enormous that they far exceeded what these Taiwanese executives could earn in an entire lifetime working in high tech. The investigation uncovered something even more remarkable. Wang Xiangyi, the Supermicro's sales manager in Taiwan, was able to keep receiving internal approvals of the purchase from his company because he had powerful family connections. Two of his relatives reportedly held senior executive positions at Supermicro's U.S. headquarters. Using both his position in Taiwan and those family connections in the U.S., investigators alleged that he manipulated the company's internal approval system, helping the smuggling network bypass compliance procedures that were supposed to be among the strictest in the industry. At that point, the entire international operation was complete. The Chinese military provided the funding. Taiwan's organized crime built the network. The American champion gamer obtained the purchase approvals. Taiwan's technology insiders handled the deliveries. And the servers successfully arrived in Taiwan. But there's still a problem. These weren't ordinary products. They were some of the most tightly controlled strategic technologies in the world. The U.S. Commerce Department and Supermicro headquarters required an on-site inspection. They could demand proof that the servers were exactly where they were supposed to be. So how did this network pull off the impossible? How did they make dozens of massive servers disappear from Taiwan and quietly ship them into China, right under the noses of U.S. and Taiwanese authorities? Once these Supermicro servers, loaded with NVIDIA's most advanced AI chips, arrived in Taiwan, the smuggling network faced its biggest challenge, I should say biggest challenge yet. Getting them past what investigators called the live inspection is the challenge. Because these chips are subject to very strict export controls. And then both Supermicro's headquarters and its Taiwanese distributor, which is A-Open Inc., were required to conduct periodic on-site inspections. Their inspectors had to physically verify that the servers were still sitting inside Taiwanese data centers, plugged in, powered on, and actually running. The goal was simple, to make sure they hadn't quietly been shipped to a restricted country. Well, if you think about it, an ordinary smuggler might have simply loaded the servers onto a ship the moment they arrived, right? Once they have the servers in their hands, they will send them off to China. But that would have ended the operation almost immediately. But this wasn't a one-time operation. According to Taiwanese investigators, this group of smugglers wanted a long-term business. So how did they make the servers appear to remain in Taiwan while actually operating inside China's military supercomputing centers? The answer emerged after investigators reconstructed deleted messages from the phone of Supermicro's Taiwanese sales manager, Wang Xiangyi. This is what they did. They stored the newly arrived servers inside a company called Chief Telecom. It's one of Taiwan's best-known telecommunication companies that operates some of Taiwan's most secure, highest-tier IDC data centers. And many international technology companies rent space for their cloud infrastructure from Chief Telecom in Taiwan. So the smugglers exploited the company's reputation. They established several shell technology companies in Taiwan to serve as firewalls. Those shell companies then leased expensive server space inside Chief Telecom's facilities and asked the company to host and manage the equipment. And according to prosecutors, Chief Telecom was simply renting out data center space to the smugglers. It had no knowledge of what its customers were allegedly doing behind the scenes. As soon as the Supermicro servers arrived in Taiwan, they were delivered directly into Chief Telecom's data center. Then whenever inspectors from Supermicro headquarters or AOPEN arrived, members of the smuggling network would escort them through the facility. They would point to rows of humming servers and say, there they are, they're running data processing and research projects for Taiwanese customers. Everything is fully compliant. The inspectors left satisfied. But the moment the inspectors walked out the door, the insiders returned. Along with logistics personnel connected to organized crime, they removed the real servers. This was essentially a high-tech version of a classic shell game. The genuine servers were taken away to avoid raising suspicion by suddenly reducing electricity consumption or network traffic inside the data center. They installed identical looking empty server chassis or even less expensive low-end servers in their place. From the outside, everything looked exactly the same. Then came the paperwork. The network, the smugglers allegedly created an entire set of fraudulent export documents. Instead of declaring the shipments as high-end AI servers, they relabeled them as ordinary consumer computer components. Sometimes they were described as low network switches that weren't subject to export controls. Taiwanese customs processes thousands of export shipments every day. Inspectors simply cannot open every crate to verify every individual item inside. With paperwork backed by executives from publicly listed Taiwanese technology companies, the shipments pass through customs without attracting attention. The next step is sending them off to China. How did they do that? The smugglers are very careful. They weren't sending these servers directly to Beijing or Shanghai. That would have been far too obvious. Instead, the shipments took a much longer route. Some first went to Japan, others went through transit hubs in Southeast Asia. There, the cargo was unloaded, new bills of lading were issued, and the original Taiwanese shipping records were effectively erased. After passing through several more intermediaries, the servers eventually arrived in Hong Kong. From there, they were quietly transported overnight across the border into mainland China. By the time those servers were plugged back inside PLA's research institutes and began powering AI development for the PLA, the U.S. Commerce Department's database still showed them sitting peacefully inside a data center in Taipei's Neihu District. And this deception continued undetected for nearly three years. Now, at this point, you may be thinking, so this is simply the story of a few greedy Taiwanese businessmen working with organized crime to take advantage of legal loopholes. Not quite so, because investigators uncovered a remarkably similar operation in Singapore. At almost the same time, prosecutors in Taiwan were carrying out their raids. Another major investigation was unfolding thousands of, I shouldn't say thousands, yeah, thousands of miles away, Singapore. Singaporean prosecutors filed additional fraud and money laundering charges against this man, the CEO of a Singaporean company. His name is Alan Wei, and his company is Aperia. It's a Singapore-based company providing IT infrastructure, cloud computing, data center, and AI computing solutions. His bail was raised to an extraordinary 1.2 Singaporean dollar, and authorities froze his luxury mansion, valued at approximately 55 Singaporean dollar, preventing it from being sold while the investigation continues. So why did Singapore suddenly step in? Because Alan Wei, together with two other senior executives, the names are Aaron Yun, and Jenny Lim, allegedly used almost exactly the same playbook to help China obtain advanced AI hardware. The group deceived Dell, Supermicro, and Asus by falsely declaring that one of Aperia's companies would be the final end user of the AI service. After obtaining the equipment, prosecutors say they secretly diverted large quantities of Amadea-powered hardware instead of delivering it to the customers identified in the purchase documents. So Alan Wei now faces fraud and money laundering charges, and prosecutors also allege that approximately 38 million dollars in criminal proceeds were used to purchase his 55 million dollar mansion. In addition, the three Aperia companies themselves have been charged with fraud by false representation. You have the Taiwan case, you have the Singapore case, the methods were strikingly similar. This doesn't look like the work of two unrelated smuggling rings. Instead, it suggests a much larger pattern. According to investigators, there's an underground chip Silk Road quietly spreading across Taiwan and Southeast Asia, using ordinary commercial infrastructure to move some of the world's most strategically sensitive AI technology into China. As a matter of fact, the investigation has reached all the way back to Supermicro's headquarters in the US. Do you remember the major indictment announced by the US Department of Justice this March? At the time, federal prosecutors charged the co-founder of the company, his name is Liao Yixian, or Yixian Wally Liao. Do I have a picture of him? That's the guy. Alleging that servers worth as much as 2.5 billion US dollars had been routed through Southeast Asia to evade export controls before ultimately reaching China. That is one of the reasons why Supermicro has recently come under intense scrutiny and suffered a sharp decline in its stock price in March and then again in late June. If you look carefully, there's a dip in March and then there's a dip recently in June and then early July. What happened in March? Well, that was when Liao, the co-founder, was indicted by the Department of Justice. Then in late June and early July, that's when the Taiwanese media was all over the few executives from the company's Taiwan office who were arrested and prosecuted in Keelung. Now, for Supermicro's founder, Charles Liao, this has become a nightmare. I think the company issued a statement saying that the company is not indicted, but the individuals or four employees have. Now, Jensen Huang keeps pushing the limits of AI chip design. Charles Liao, I don't have a picture of him, but he's the founder of Supermicro. He keeps building the world's most advanced AI servers using Jensen Huang's chips. Yet behind the scenes, China's intelligence and procurement networks had already penetrated deep into the company's supply chain. Not long ago, Jensen Huang made a very public statement. He said NVIDIA's Blackwell chips and the next generation Rubin platform must not end up in China. He even said NVIDIA was willing to see its market share in China fall to zero if necessary. And yet, that reality has proven far more complicated. Time and again, the Chinese Communist Party has shown an ability to exploit the openness of democratic societies and the weaknesses of human nature to circumvent restrictions. And that brings us to the biggest question of all. I don't want to just end it here. We need to reflect on this case because it really shows a number of problems for the United States. Because this isn't just a story about Taiwan or a story about Supermicro. And it isn't just about how China smuggles advanced AI chips. This story should serve as a stick warning to Washington. Because if the allegations expose weaknesses that go far beyond one company or one smuggling ring, they expose weaknesses in the very system the U.S. has built to protect its most sensitive technologies. The first warning is that the battlefield has changed. For years, the U.S. focused on controlling the technology itself, who designed the chip, who manufactured it, where was it manufactured, who was allowed to buy it. Those questions are still important. But this case has illustrated that the real battle now begins after the chip leaves the factory. A Blackwell GPU isn't dangerous when it's sold. It becomes dangerous when it's actually being powered on and connected to an AI cluster, depending on who actually powers it on. If that last mile isn't secure, much of the export control effort can be undermined. The second warning may be even more important. What struck me most about this case is that it didn't resemble a Hollywood spy movie. There weren't secret agents stealing chips from laboratories or from factories. Instead, according to investigators, the network hid inside ordinary commerce. You have legitimate technology companies, legitimate cloud service providers, legitimate distributors, legitimate data centers, publicly listed companies. On their own, every company looked perfectly legitimate. Every transaction looked like ordinary business. But when they were linked together, investigators say they formed an underground supply chain capable of moving some of the world's most sensitive AI chips into China. The network didn't hide outside the global economy like traditional smuggling does. It hid inside it. So it's far more difficult to detect than traditional smuggling. If you think about it, it's commercial business activities on the surface. And so the third warning is about the nature. And because of that, because it appears like normal commercial activities, it becomes an uneven war. So my third warning is about the nature of this contest or this competition. The US spends tens of billions of dollars developing advanced chips. It spends enormous resources writing regulations, enforcing export controls, auditing companies, and investigating violations. Companies invest heavily in compliance. Government agencies spend years building an enforcement system based on the rule of law. But a smuggling network doesn't have to defeat that entire system. It only has to find one weak link, one insider, one distributor, one fake customer, one successful shipment. That's an inherently uneven competition. The defender must protect thousands of transactions, the entire network. But the smugglers only need one route to succeed. So that's a totally uneven war. And finally, this case raises an uncomfortable question about trust. Because in the US, and also in the rest of the democratic world, technology has been built on an open global supply chain. Because there's trust. Partners cooperate. Companies specialize. Goods move freely across borders. That openness has made the US and its allies, the world's innovation leaders. But openness also creates opportunities for those willing to exploit it. So think about it. Global commerce is built on efficiency and trust. National security now increasingly requires verification and resilience against deception. So they don't work hand in hand. Now, with nefarious actors like the CCP, global commerce and national security are increasingly at odds at each other. One requires open society, efficiency, and trust. The other says, no, we cannot have that. So finding a way to balance those two goals may become one of the biggest challenges for government during the AI time. And I sense that as technology accelerates further and brings more breakthroughs and opportunities, it may inevitably require more government involvement and regulatory control, or more government surveillance and regulatory control. And if that's the case, as much as people assume that AI will bring humanity more freedom or more opportunities, I think at the same time, it will be taking away our freedom because governments will forever be involved. And you know, when governments are forever involved, so goes our freedom. So I think that's a pair of contradiction that cannot be solved during the AI time. All right. So that's what I have for you. I'm surprised that there aren't that many people find this topic interesting. Yeah, we only have what, 500 people during the live stream? Normally, we have like thousands of people. So I don't know what happened to YouTube. Is that because the more I think about it, the worse it becomes? Anyways, it's okay. I cover topics that I think are important. And this one is important. I think the world really needs to wake up to see. I do not believe that's the only smuggling network. I think there are many other similar operations still running around the world. So it's a matter of finding them. All right. Okay. Let's see. First question. Good morning. I'm waiting here from the Philippines. Oh, okay. All right. Welcome. All right. Let's see. I saw some color bars flying by. Let me acknowledge them. All right. I saw something I was discussing. All right. Here's one from Angela Falala. Thank you, Angela. All right. I love your name. Let's see. Okay. Here's a question from Bathwater Basin. Oh, no, this is not for me. Oh, from William Mitchell, 1722. A question for Lei. I've watched numerous videos of Xi Jinping speaking, usually to small groups of Chinese, but sometimes to larger audiences. I've never heard Xi's voice. Why is that? You've never heard his voice in the videos that you watched? Is that your question? Well, it depends. I mean, did you watch CCTV's original footage, or did you watch the remake of the event by other media outlets or social media influencers? So I'm not quite sure what kind of videos you watch, but recently there has been, it's increasingly frequent that the CCTV does not show Xi Jinping's original soundtrack, and people have noticed that. And reasons, maybe they want to downgrade his profile. That's one possibility. Politically, yeah, they want to downgrade his status. And secondly, some people say maybe it's a body double, and therefore they don't want to show his voice. Maybe someone can recognize it's a different voice. I don't know, but I did hear from people complaining or commenting on the fact that the central Chinese TV network does not play Xi Jinping's original soundtrack as much as before. So I think that seems to match with your observation. All right, good question, and good observation. Okay, yeah, if you enjoyed this talk, please like my video and leave me a comment. That will help push the algorithm, and I appreciate that. Thank you for doing that. Okay, here's a question from May He Maniacs. Based on this information, what has Taiwan done within their legal framework? I mean, this case really highlights several issues that Taiwan has, number one is the lack of legal framework to prosecute. They need to fix that. They need to close the gap immediately. And then second of all, think about the two executives working in the high tech industry in Taiwan. They would sell out their national interest just for money. I mean, why would they co-op with the CCP because of money? So that's a serious problem. Yeah, and then number the third risk is, if the rest of the world has lost confidence in Taiwan's ability in protecting its IC, or in defending itself, then it's not looking good. I mean, right now, I remember President Trump has made it very obvious that he wants to see TSMC to move to the US. I think part of the concern is really CCP's infiltration in Taiwan. Yeah, and it could be anywhere. It is a serious threat in Taiwan because it's a small island, and China is a much bigger country, and it's a free, it's an open democratic society. So this case really highlights the risk that Taiwan faces. Yeah. But with their parliament, with the legislative Yuan being controlled by the opposition party, I don't know how fast they're able to pass the law to close that gap. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, that's a problem. But thank you for the question. Okay. Jeff Stockwell, latest x-ray vision. All right. Okay. Thank you. Someone said, I'm just trying to find a question. Okay. Mark Pollard. I found this very interesting. However, I think the AI bet will backfire on the CCP. As an engineer, I believe AI cannot replace people's jobs. And even if they did, it would be a social problem. You're right. From the perspective of any economist or geopolitical analyst, that would be a sound assessment, but not from the CCP's perspective. Think about it. Why is Beijing obsessed with AI? Because like I said, like the comment I made at the end of my presentation, AI allows the government to have better control over its people. AI will not give people more freedom. AI will take freedom away from people as time goes on. And this is why Beijing loves AI. Yes, it will create more unemployment in China, but that's not Beijing's concern. Its only concern is control, absolute control. So that's why it's obsessed. And the CCP is not afraid that its people suffer poverty. It's not on its radar screen. It's not concerned at all. But thank you. We have some good questions here tonight. All right. Some very interesting topic. Joseph Tan, please talk more on the recent US House resolution enlisting CCP as a criminal organization. Once it passes the Senate, what implications it brings. That is tremendous. I mean, think about it. What does that mean? Okay. Now China has diplomatic relations with what? Almost all the countries in the world, right? Has there ever a government or a political party, a major political party of a government that has diplomatic relations with almost all countries in the world being defined as a criminal organization? This is unprecedented, right? So if it passes the Senate and becomes law, then I think it's just saying, yeah, the CCP is a criminal organization. Well, then what about all these countries that still have maintained diplomatic relations with I mean, there isn't a law. Is there a US law that defines the Iranian government as a criminal organization? I'm not aware. Is there? Or what about North Korea? I don't think so. But if it becomes law, if the US Congress defines the CCP as a criminal organization, that's unprecedented. Yeah. All right. Authentic Austin Ron. Thank you. Important topic. I think it's uncomfortable to see and think about the implications. It's only the tip of the iceberg. Don't you think? I think this is only the tip of the iceberg. I think what's uncovered is just a tiny fraction of the smuggling activities. Because like I said, I mean, it's an uneven war, right? The US has to devote so much resources to build the system for sanction and then for reinforcement, for inspection, and then for punishment. And it's an elaborate system. You need to have procedures and rules and procedures in place to make that system work. But it only takes a smuggling ring, some money to corrupt one individual, one distributor, one company, or one company executive to be successful. So it's an uneven war. I think the US and then the rest of the world really need to think about their strategy in competing with China or in their strategy in not competing in dealing, managing the CCP. Like I said, I always use this analogy. When a gentleman is in an ugly fight with a hooligan, if the gentleman is likely to lose, if he's obsessed with his gentlemanly manner, it's an uneven war. One is willing to play dirty, the other is still obsessed with his manner. How can he win? That's my point. I'm not saying that the gentleman should become a hooligan, but I'm just saying you need to rethink about your strategy. You need to focus on your goal. You need to play smart. Okay. Christine Nalin, Lady Lay, so glad to see you again. YouTube algorithm God has been very annoyed by my choices playing musical chairs game. Yeah. So everyone, those of you who have subscribed, please double check to see if you are still subscribed and turn on the bell so that you get the notification when something is scheduled. All right. Let's just make sure we're connected. Okay. I already talked about that question. All right. Let's see. Here's a question from Kiwi Green. Don't worry. Remember, it's still a holiday week. People will be back next week. Okay. All right. Good. All right. Someone said, Oh, Cam, I heard another live streamer say YouTube recently changed their algorithm. Now they promote and notify on your live stream based upon how many people are viewing within one hour from the start. All right. I cannot worry too much about that. You know me. I have to, you know, I have to focus on the content. That's always my focus. Many Kyla, thank you. Where have your camera and microphone being manufactured? Those what you use for this stream? I have no idea. Made in China? Made in Vietnam? One of the two. Is there a concern? Should I not use cameras that are made in China? All right. Thank you. All right. Here's a question from and fury boss. Do you know that Elaine Chao was under investigation by DOJ before she took the opportunity to suddenly resign when J6 2020 happened and she escaped persecution under Biden? I didn't know that, but there have been so many claims that she is especially close to China. Within the Chinese community of China watchers, there seems to be a belief that she rushed to go to China to secure special medical treatment for her husband. There are not ethically allowed in this country. That's what people are speculating. Otherwise, it can't explain why, you know, given the condition of her husband, why she rushed to China. Yeah. So I don't know. I have no proof, but that's just what I heard or that's what people are whispering. Okay. Okay. That seems to be all. I thank you very much for joining me. While I started with 500 people, I end with 500 people. So people, thank you for staying with me until the very end. I'll be back on Saturday with more information. All right. Enjoy the rest of your night or day. And I'll see you in two days. Bye. We love my shirt. Yeah, it's a it's a very light hearted, happy shirt. It's my happy shirt. Bye. See you on Saturday.