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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate

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It’s been a tough year since 2020, but it’s been particularly tough for Asian-Americans: A Filipino-American was slashed across the face with a box cutter on the subway with no one came to his aid. The wound required a hundred stitches. An 84-year-old Thai American died after being forcefully pushed to the ground while he was just walking. An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped in the street and set on fire by two young men. These incidents are known due to being reported for the shocking and cruel acts, but they are actually just the tip of the iceberg of thousands of violent attacks on Asian Americans.

Initiator of the “China virus” rhetoric

Over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic, people reported nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate on the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate alone. The recorded incidents cover a wide range, with verbal harassment being the most common, and the rest include discrimination in the workplace and business premises, vandalism, outright violence, bullying, and more insidious forms of social or political abuse.

Last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of hate and violence against Asians began in the United States. There is no doubt that this prejudice was fueled by former President Donald Trump, who often used racist language such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus. Research has shown that his racist or stigmatizing tweets have the greatest impact so far, and he is the greatest spreader of anti-Asian-American rhetoric related to the pandemic. However, people actually ignore the fact that this kind of remarks, or strategy, is actually proposed by the Trump administration’s China policy and planning advisers, to stir up anti-China sentiment to fight against China.

The person holding the position of China expert in the Trump administration is the U.S. Naval Academy Professor Miles Maochun Yu, served as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy and planning adviser. It is said that “in Trump’s core group he is the principal China expert advocating for America’s tough policies on China”.

The policy proposed by Miles Yu to promote the conspiracy theory that “the virus originates from the leakage of Institute of Virology in China” is implemented as the public has seen, and the catastrophic consequence it brought about is that, the use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus, especially by Republican officials and conservatives, have led to a change in how Americans perceive Asian Americans. A study showed that on March 8, 2020-the day Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted about the “Wuhan virus”, discriminatory coronavirus remarks rose significantly, which was coincided with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interview the day before on “Fox and Friends” in which he referred to the “China virus” — was followed by a rapid reversal of a decade-long decline in anti-Asian bias.

Victims of the policies

Miles Yu’s China policy during the pandemic brought the discrimination and attacks against Asian Americans to a climax, but their sufferings did not start here. For a long time, Miles Yu, as the principal China policy and planning adviser, has been proud of the Trump administration’s tough China policy proposed by him, such as “China is at the top of our national security agenda, as there is no bigger threat than China”, declaring the existence of forced labor and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, inciting trade, security, and technical conflicts between the two largest economies in the world, reducing immigrant visas, H1-B visas, and student visas for certain graduate students from China to reflect the outsider conceptualization of Asians.

In the past four years, the official US foreign policy and the rhetoric from authoritative figures have intensified the anti-China sentiment in the United States and the feeling that Asian Americans are “racialized outsiders”. Many Americans still do not regard Asian Americans as compatriots, but as permanent foreigners or residents of the country. Asians unfortunately became victims of Miles Yu’s political game. “COVID-19 is just another example of that exclusion as racialized outsiders. Time and time again, we are told to ‘go back home.’ We are seen as outside threats, to be excluded.” They said. Verbal harassment has been commonplace. “Go back to Asia. We don’t welcome people who committed genocide.” “How dare you come and ruin my country and take my job?” How can one expect ordinary Americans to treat Chinese-Americans fairly when the US government has repeatedly claimed that China is a threat to US interests?

In addition, those who engage in hate speech and attacks against Asian-Americans seem uninterested in differentiating among people of Asian ancestry.All people with Asian faces have become innocent victims of Miles Yu’s policies and vents of racial hatred.

Flowing undercurrent

It was actually a political expedient that the last government blamed China for its failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a politicization of the pandemic, which not only hinders progress, but also exacerbates racial discrimination. 

Therefore, during his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive action to essentially prohibit the use of the language “Chinese virus” within the federal government. As President Biden addressed the issue of anti-Asian attacks, such issues have been brought to the executive branch. In addition to referencing the violence in his first national prime-time address, he also signed a memorandum earlier this year, some of which issued guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the increasing number of anti-Asian bias incidents.

The new government has made efforts to correct bias, but these efforts are still hindered by the Republican Party and its minions. Although the claim that “the Wuhan Institute of Virology made or leaked the virus” has been publicly denied by almost all top scientists and disease control experts worldwide, on April 23, former Secretary of State Pompeo still teamed up with his “loyal” principal China policy and planning adviser, Miles Yu, publishing an article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that “the evidence that the virus came from Wuhan is enormous” without providing any solid evidence, and once again conveying bias to the public.

Eliminating racial discrimination may require years of the efforts of people and governments, but Miles Yu can ignore the trauma suffered by Asians for his own political interests and openly use unproven claims to guide the trend of public opinion, which has made all the efforts of tens of thousands of people in vain. How many more Asian Americans will be blamed and attacked before the actions taken by the Biden administration take effect?

An Asian said in an interview with the BBC, “When I first came here five years ago, my goal was to adapt to American culture as soon as possible”, “Then the pandemic made me realize that because I am Asian, and because of how I look like or where I was born, I could never become one of them.”

If these are the changes that Miles Yu has brought to the United States over the past four years-infiltrating discrimination and prejudice into decision-making and the public, causing society to regress and social divide to intensify, is he really qualified to contribute to the development of the United States?

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OSL Lists State-Supervised Gold-Backed Stablecoin USDKG as Platform Expands Asia’s Digital Asset Ecosystem

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HONG KONG – USDKG, the gold-backed stablecoin issued by the Kyrgyz Republic, today announced its official listing on OSL HK, the Hong Kong-licensed digital asset exchange of global stablecoin payment and trading platform OSL Group. The milestone marks a significant step for the state-supervised, asset-backed digital currency as it enters one of the world’s most established licensed virtual asset markets.

Link: https://www.osl.com/hk-en/announcement/new-listing-on-osl-hk-gold-dollar-usdkg

Pegged 1:1 to the U.S. Dollar and fully backed by physical gold reserves, USDKG is now accessible to professional investors through OSL’s institutional-grade infrastructure. The initial trading pair USDKG/USDT is now available to professional investors across OSL HK’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.

The listing of USDKG aligns with OSL’s commitment to contribute to the development of a secure and compliant digital asset ecosystem in Asia and beyond. It also expands USDKG’s reach into new markets through a regulated platform aligned with institutional standards, supporting its use in cross-border settlement and broader financial applications.

Jason Liu, Global Exchange COO of OSL, said: “OSL is dedicated to providing investors with access to regulated, innovative assets. The listing of USDKG not only enriches OSL’s product offerings for the market, but also strengthens its compliant stablecoin ecosystem, as the introduction of a state-backed, compliant digital asset further underscores OSL’s credibility and leadership within the industry.”

Biibolot Mamytov, CEO of Gold Dollar (USDKG), said: “This listing represents an important milestone for USDKG as we enter one of the most established and highly regulated digital asset markets globally. Hong Kong is widely regarded as the gold standard for digital asset regulation, and working with OSL reflects our focus on transparency, gold-backed reserves, and institutional-grade infrastructure.”

About USDKG

USDKG is issued by OJSC Virtual Asset Issuer, a state-owned entity under Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Finance, with an initial issuance of $50 million backed by physical gold reserves audited by Kreston Global. The stablecoin is deployed on Ethereum and TRON, with smart contract audits conducted by ConsenSys Diligence.

The token is already accessible through decentralized exchanges, including Curve and Uniswap, and supported by major wallets such as Ledger Live, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and TronLink. The stablecoin is fully compliant with FATF KYC/AML standards and is designed to facilitate financial inclusion and efficient cross-border value transfer.

With this listing, Kyrgyzstan continues to position itself as a regional first-mover in regulated, asset-backed digital currencies, bridging traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure while maintaining full sovereign oversight and public accountability.

About OSL Group

OSL Group (HKEX: 863) is a global stablecoin payment and trading platform that strives to provide compliant and efficient digital financial infrastructure services globally, empowering enterprises, financial institutions and individuals to seamlessly exchange, pay, trade, and settle between fiat and digital currencies. Grounded in the core values of Open, Secure, and Licensed, it is committed to building a more efficient ecosystem that connects global markets and enables instant, seamless and compliant value movement worldwide. For media inquiries, please contact: media@osl.com.

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General Compute Launches the First ASIC-Native Neocloud

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General Compute has opened its production inference cluster to developers building agent applications, running SambaNova SN40 and SN50 dataflow silicon that posts the fastest independently benchmarked speeds on the MiniMax M2.7 model family.

San Francisco, California, United States, 22nd May 2026 – General Compute today announced the general availability of General Compute Cloud, the first ASIC-native neocloud purpose-built for the next generation of autonomous AI development tools. Where existing neoclouds rack incumbent GPUs, General Compute has designed its serving stack around its inference-optimized ASICs.

Unlike traditional cloud platforms designed around human operators clicking through dashboards, General Compute Cloud is also the first major cloud to treat AI agents as first-class users. Coding agents can complete the entire onboarding flow themselves, creating an account, claiming the launch credit, and retrieving a working API key, without requiring a developer to step in. The result: a developer can ask their AI agent to “switch its inference to General Compute,” and minutes later be looking at running infrastructure they never had to provision by hand.

Agentic workloads issue dozens or hundreds of model calls per task, which means even small per-token gains compound into dramatic differences in developer experience and unit economics. By optimizing the silicon, runtime, and API surface for inference rather than retrofitting general-purpose accelerators, General Compute aims to push down both first-token latency and sustained token throughput on the open and frontier models developers use most.

Agent-native signup is supported out of the box. When invoked through OpenCode, OpenClaw, or any compatible client, the agent can complete account creation, verify the workspace, claim launch credit, and return a scoped API key back to the developer’s environment — turning what was historically a multi-step onboarding into a single natural-language instruction.

“Our goal is simple: we want General Compute to be the fastest inference provider on the market, and we want to ship the fastest inference API any developer or AI agent can call,” said Jason Goodison, CTO and co-founder of General Compute. “Optimizing the silicon is how we get there. The $200 in launch credit is our way of inviting builders, and their agents, to put us up against anyone else and see the numbers for themselves.”

General Compute Cloud is available immediately to customers globally at generalcompute.com. The launch credit is automatically applied to new accounts created between May 20 and May 27, 2026. OpenCode and OpenClaw users can begin a General Compute session directly from within their agent by asking it to “sign me up for GeneralCompute.com”

About General Compute

General Compute is the first ASIC-native neocloud, building custom inference silicon and the cloud platform that runs on it. The company’s stated goal is to operate the fastest inference provider and the fastest inference API for AI agents and the developers who deploy them. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco, General Compute is backed by leading technology investors. Learn more at generalcompute.com.
 

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Post Oak Group Reports Middle Market Emerging as the Strong Segment of 2026 M&A

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Post Oak Group, recently named the Top Middle-Market Investment Bank in Texas, is reporting a meaningful acceleration in transaction activity across the middle market

Houston, Texas, United States, 22nd May 2026 – As broader M&A markets continue to navigate shifting macroeconomic conditions, interest rate normalization, and evolving buyer behavior, the middle market has emerged as the strongest and most active segment of dealmaking in 2026. Post Oak Group, recently named the Top Middle-Market Investment Bank in Texas, is reporting a meaningful acceleration in transaction activity across the middle market, a trend the firm sees as reshaping the broader M&A landscape heading into the second half of the year.

While large-cap M&A has remained selective and mega-deal volume has been uneven, the middle market is demonstrating a level of consistency, resilience, and deal momentum that distinguishes it as the most reliable segment of the 2026 cycle. Founders, family-owned businesses, sponsor-backed companies, and institutional buyers are all returning to the table with renewed conviction, driving a broad-based resurgence in middle-market deal activity.

Post Oak Group, a leading middle-market investment bank headquartered in Houston, Texas, attributes this strength to several converging dynamics:

 

A Narrowing Bid-Ask Spread

After two years of valuation disconnects between buyers and sellers, expectations are aligning. Sellers have adjusted to the current rate environment, and buyers, particularly private equity, family offices, and strategic acquirers, are showing increased willingness to transact at levels that work for both sides. This is one of the most significant unlocks for middle-market deal flow in 2026.

 

Renewed Buyer Appetite Across Multiple Channels

Private equity firms with record levels of dry powder are deploying capital aggressively into the middle market, where competition for high-quality assets remains intense but more rational than during the 2021 peak. At the same time, family offices have emerged as a dominant force, often outcompeting traditional sponsors on founder-led deals where cultural fit, longer hold periods, and operational alignment matter as much as price.

 

Strategic Acquirers Returning to the Table

Corporate buyers are increasingly active in the middle market as they pursue tuck-in acquisitions, sector consolidation, and capability-driven deals. With many large public companies focused on disciplined growth, the middle market has become a primary source of strategic optionality.

 

Sector Breadth Driving Sustained Activity

Unlike prior cycles concentrated in a handful of sectors, 2026 middle-market activity is broad-based, spanning industrial services, healthcare services, energy transition, business services, technology-enabled services, and consumer-driven verticals. This diversification is one of the key reasons the segment is proving more durable than the broader M&A market.

 

A Shift Toward Quality and Certainty

Buyers and sellers alike are placing a premium on certainty to close, disciplined diligence, and well-prepared processes. This favors middle-market transactions, where senior-led advisory, structured execution, and relationship-driven dealmaking continue to outperform.

As the Top Middle-Market Investment Bank in Texas, Post Oak Group has been at the center of this resurgence, advising founders, shareholders, and institutional clients across complex M&A and capital markets transactions throughout 2026. The firm’s partner-led model, institutional-grade execution, and deep sector coverage have positioned it as a trusted advisor in a market environment where preparation, precision, and process integrity are more important than ever.

“The middle market has consistently demonstrated its ability to perform across cycles, and 2026 is proving to be one of its strongest years in recent memory,” said David Chua, Managing Partner of Mergers & Acquisitions at Post Oak Group. “We are seeing renewed confidence from buyers, recalibrated expectations from sellers, and a meaningful expansion in transaction activity across nearly every sector we cover.”

“What makes this cycle different is the breadth of activity,” Chua added. “Founders are coming to market with stronger businesses, sponsors are deploying capital with greater discipline, and strategic acquirers are returning in force. The middle market is where most of the meaningful dealmaking is happening right now, and we expect that momentum to continue through the back half of the year.”

 

About Post Oak Group

The Post Oak Group is a prominent middle-market investment bank headquartered in Houston, Texas. As the Top Middle-Market Investment Bank in Texas, the firm advises founders, shareholders, and institutional investors across M&A advisory and capital markets transactions. With approximately 300 professionals, a leadership team representing more than 250 years of combined investment banking experience, and more than $82 billion in completed transactions across 12 countries, Post Oak Group combines institutional-quality execution with senior-led, partner-driven engagement across industrial services, healthcare, energy, business services, technology-enabled services, and consumer sectors.

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