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Epstein Files: “I want the best strategy for burying him in his own nonsense. I am going to kill him slowly and painfully.” Someone wrote to Epstein 6/30/2014 Remeber… Ongoing Investigations sometimes = Redacted.

This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the rest of the country, and an extremely attractive entry gate for the Chinese market. You can now import most products in the world (74% of all goods) entirely duty free into Hainan. And, if you transform the product and add 30% value locally, you can then send it to the rest of mainland China completely tariff-free. So for instance: import Australian beef into Hainan tax free. Slice it and package it for hotpot in Hainan: it can enter all mainland supermarkets duty-free. They also have insanely low corporate tax rates: 15%, lower than Hong Kong (16.5%) and Singapore (17%) or the rest of the mainland (25%). That's not all, Hainan now has different rules from the rest of China in dozens of areas: HEALTH: Basically the rule is that if a medicine or medical device is approved by regulatory agencies anywhere in the world, it can be used in Hainan - even if banned on the mainland. Which undoubtedly makes it THE place in the world with the widest range of medical treatments available. NO FIREWALL: Companies registered in Hainan can apply for unrestricted global internet access OPEN EDUCATION: Foreign universities can open campuses without a Chinese partner VISA-FREE: 86 countries get visa-free entry, probably one of the most open places in the world CAPITAL: Special accounts let money flow freely to and from overseas - normal mainland forex restrictions don't apply So they're running a pretty extraordinary "radical openness" experiment there. They're basically building a "greatest hits" of global free zones: Singapore's tax regime, Switzerland's medical access, Dubai's visa policy - all in one giant tropical island attached to the 1.4 billion people Chinese consumer market.

Thread. Peristiwa Pembantaian Mandor 28 Juni 1944 Hari ini tepat pada tanggal 28 Juni, kami masyarakat Borneo Barat memperingati Peristiwa Mandor.

Imperial Japan perpetrated massacres primarily in China (Nanjing Massacre, killing 200,000+ civilians), the Philippines (Manila Massacre, ~100,000 deaths), Indonesia (Mandor Affair and forced labor deaths totaling millions), Singapore (Sook Ching, 50,000+ Chinese executed), and Malaya. Atrocities extended to Korea (civilian suppression), Vietnam (famine-induced deaths of 1-2 million), Burma (railway labor camps), East Timor (rapes and killings), and Pacific islands like New Guinea. These acts spanned the 1930s-1940s invasions, documented in war crimes trials.

The Mandor Massacre, part of the broader Pontianak Incidents, occurred in 1943-1944 during Japan's occupation of Dutch East Indies in West Kalimantan (Borneo). Japanese military forces, fearing uprisings, executed over 21,000 people—including local elites, intellectuals, ethnic Chinese, and suspected dissidents—in a purge against perceived threats. Victims were slaughtered and buried in mass graves near Mandor village, representing one of WWII's lesser-known atrocities by Imperial Japan in Southeast Asia.

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