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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate
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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ALL FAMILY PHARMACY CONTINUES TO EXPAND ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE TELEHEALTH AND PRESCRIPTION SERVICES NATIONWIDE
Making Healthcare Simpler, Faster, and More Accessible for American Families
United States, 1st Sep 2026 — All Family Pharmacy, a rapidly growing telehealth and prescription fulfillment platform, continues to expand its nationwide services as demand increases for convenient, affordable healthcare solutions that help patients access licensed medical providers and prescription medications from the comfort of home.
As healthcare costs continue to rise and access to care remains a challenge for many Americans, All Family Pharmacy has focused on creating a streamlined experience that removes unnecessary barriers between patients and healthcare professionals. Through its online platform, patients can connect with licensed providers, receive medical evaluations, and access prescribed medications through a simple and efficient process.
“Our mission has always been to make healthcare more accessible and less complicated,” said a spokesperson for All Family Pharmacy. “Patients deserve convenient options that fit their lives while maintaining the standards of care they expect. We are committed to helping individuals and families access healthcare services in a way that is transparent, affordable, and easy to navigate.”
The company has experienced significant growth as consumers increasingly seek alternatives to traditional healthcare models that often require lengthy appointment wait times, multiple office visits, and complicated prescription fulfillment processes. By leveraging telehealth technology and pharmacy partnerships, All Family Pharmacy helps bridge the gap between patients and the care they need.
In addition to expanding its telehealth capabilities, All Family Pharmacy continues to invest in customer support, technology infrastructure, provider networks, and educational resources designed to help patients make informed healthcare decisions. The company also works to provide clear pricing and straightforward access to a variety of healthcare services and prescription options.
Industry experts have noted that consumer adoption of telehealth services has accelerated dramatically in recent years, with millions of Americans now embracing virtual healthcare solutions as a practical component of their overall wellness strategy. All Family Pharmacy is positioned to meet this growing demand by focusing on convenience, accessibility, and patient-centered care.
As the company continues its expansion efforts, All Family Pharmacy remains focused on its core mission: helping patients access healthcare services quickly, safely, and efficiently while maintaining a commitment to affordability and customer satisfaction.
For more information about All Family Pharmacy and its available services, visit the company’s website.
About All Family Pharmacy
All Family Pharmacy is a telehealth and prescription fulfillment platform dedicated to providing convenient access to licensed healthcare providers and prescription medications. By combining technology, healthcare expertise, and customer-focused service, the company helps individuals and families navigate their healthcare needs through a modern, accessible approach.
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The independent eyewear label will cut its best-selling frames to prescription from fall 2026, with pairs made to order in 10 to 12 days and prices expected to start near $150.
NY, New York, United States, 1st Sep 2026 – Elliot Vaughn has confirmed that customers who need vision correction will be able to order its frames glazed to prescription from fall 2026. Prices are expected to start near $150 and will vary by lens specification. The brand sells direct through elliotvaughn.com, with no wholesaler or retailer in between.
The label has sold sunglasses only until now, which meant anyone with a prescription treated the range as off limits or wore the frames over contacts. The brand says the request has come up consistently enough, and for long enough, that it stopped reading as a niche ask.
The problem with buying design-led eyewear when you need a prescription
Prescription wearers tend to shop from whatever an optician happens to stock. Independent labels rarely offer glazing, so the frames people actually like the look of are usually the ones they cannot have made up to their script. The practical result is a compromise: pick something that fits the prescription, or pick something you want to wear.
Elliot Vaughn is closing that gap on its own catalogue rather than across the wider market, but for its customers the effect is the same. The shapes they already own as sunglasses become shapes they can wear every day.
A range built on restraint
Elliot Vaughn has kept its catalogue deliberately narrow, and puts three words on its own homepage to explain why: restraint, discretion, intention. The frames borrow from shapes people already recognise, and the detail work sits close to the face rather than announcing itself from across a room.
Cat-eye and rounded silhouettes carry the range. The Juliette Cat-Eye, the Bellina Loop, the Riviera Cat-Eye and the Paris Retro are all cut narrow and sit close to the face, with the Paris Retro adding polarized lenses on a corrosion-resistant alloy bridge. The metal-temple styles follow. The Capri Link carries a gold-tone chain-link hinge at the temple joint, and the Rothwell Round Metal Shades are hand-finished acetate over an internal metal support. The Veyra Aviator, the Monaco Minimalist and the Echelon Luxe Rimless Shades cover the aviator, sculpted-metal and rimless builds. Most frames in the Elliot Vaughn collection carry UV400 lens protection, including the Juliette Cat-Eye, the Capri Link, the Rothwell and the Veyra Aviator.
What arrives with the glasses
Each pair ships in a turquoise hard case with gold lettering, packed with a microfiber cloth, an authenticity card and a serial-numbered guarantee card valid internationally. Orders leave within one to two working days and ship worldwide, with 30 days to return. Shipping is free over $119.99, and orders over $79.99 include a premium travel pouch.
The label holds a 4.6 out of 5 rating on Trustpilot. Reviewers keep returning to the same three things: how the frames are built, how they sit, and the case they turn up in. The full set is on the Trustpilot profile and on the brand’s own customer reviews page.
“We have had thousands of people ask us the same question since launch, and the honest answer for years was no. There is a real gap here. You can buy a frame worth wearing or a frame you can see through, and hardly ever the same frame. We did not want to keep making people pick.” — Spokesperson, Elliot Vaughn
How ordering will work
Prescription glazing opens on Elliot Vaughn’s best-selling frames in fall 2026. Each pair is cut to order over 10 to 12 days, then delivered about three days after dispatch. Prices start near $150 and rise with lens specification.
Customers will need a current prescription from a qualified eye care professional when they order. Lens options, which frames take which specifications, and confirmed turnaround times will be published on elliotvaughn.com before launch.
About Elliot Vaughn
Elliot Vaughn is an independent eyewear label that sells quiet-luxury sunglasses worldwide, direct to customers, through elliotvaughn.com. The range includes the Juliette Cat-Eye, the Bellina Loop, the Riviera Cat-Eye, the Capri Link, the Paris Retro, the Rothwell Round Metal Shades, the Veyra Aviator, the Monaco Minimalist and the Echelon Luxe Rimless Shades. Each ships in a branded hard case with authenticity and international guarantee cards. Delivery is worldwide, and every order has a 30-day return window.
Elliot Vaughn trades under Moretti International Ltd, an ecommerce company that has sold to more than 100,000 customers over recent years.
ELLIOT VAUGHN
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Press Release
Lianlian DigiTech Announces 2026 Interim Results with H1 Revenue Reaching RMB 880 Million
Hong Kong, August 20, 2026 – Lianlian DigiTech Co., Ltd. (HKEX: 2598) (“Lianlian DigiTech” or the “Company”), an AI-driven digital payment service provider headquartered in China with a global footprint, today reported interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2026. Following the announcement of its AI-Native + Globalization strategic upgrade during the period, the Company delivered growth across revenue, profitability, and product development, reflecting early execution of the new strategy.
Results Highlights
- Total Transaction Payment Volume (TPV) for global payments reached RMB 249.9 billion, up 25.9% year-over-year
- Total revenue grew 11.9% year-over-year to RMB 875.6 million; global payment revenue reached RMB 600.9 million, and domestic payment revenue was RMB 106.0 million. Value-added services revenue increased 83.2% year-over-year to RMB 164.2 million
- Gross profit reached RMB 454.4 million with a gross profit margin of 51.9%; global payment gross margin reached 70.8%
- Adjusted operating profit increased 147.3% to RMB 156 million, excluding all non-operating items
- Global regulatory footprint expanded to 68 payment licenses and qualifications, including new approvals in Canada and Dubai
Mr. Zhang Zhengyu, Chairman and CEO of Lianlian DigiTech, commented,
“In the first half of 2026, we made solid progress across all three growth pillars. We sharpened our focus on high-value customers and captured opportunities in global cross-border trade to sustain high-quality growth in our core business. Our AI-Native + Globalization strategy drove product delivery, with the launch of a series of AI products, alongside key breakthroughs in Agentic Payment that extended our services beyond payments. We also continued to expand our ecosystem and deepen our presence across the fintech and AI value chains. Guided by our mission, ‘Connecting the world, Empowering global commerce’, Lianlian remains committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our customers and shareholders.”
Ms. Wen Yingse, CFO, Lianlian DigiTech, said,
“Despite a complex market environment, we delivered solid results in the first half of 2026 — both revenue and gross profit grew approximately 11.9% year-over-year, and adjusted operating profit more than doubled, reflecting continuous improvement in profitability and operating quality. We also continued to optimize our organizational structure and resource allocation, reducing our combined expense ratio from 60.3% to 51.9%, down 8.4 percentage points year-over-year. Looking ahead, we will continue to focus on core business growth, deepen the integration of AI in our business operations, capture economies of scale, and prudently expand ecosystem partnerships, strengthening our long-term, stable and sustainable competitive advantage in the global market.”
Global Payments
In its global payment business, Lianlian continued to expand its addressable market. On the product side, the Company accelerated the development of intelligent payment capabilities, embedding AI into operational processes to support enterprise efficiency and performance. The Company continued to focus on high-value enterprise clients going global and broaden its global payment services across B2B trade and service trade, expanding the range of cross-border business scenarios it supports. With a payment infrastructure spanning 68 licenses and qualifications across key international markets, including a newly obtained Canadian MSB license and a Dubai Category 3D payment license, Lianlian is well positioned to serve as a long-term operational partner for enterprises conducting business globally.
Domestic Payments and Value-Added Services
In the domestic payment sector, Lianlian maintained compliance with applicable regulatory requirements while making proactive adjustments to its resource allocation, deprioritizing lower-contributing transaction categories. The Company also strengthened the integration of its domestic capabilities with its global payment network, creating additional value for clients with cross-border operational requirements. Value-added services continued to grow as a significant revenue contributor in H1 2026. Lianlian continued to expand its payment service value chain and deepen the integration of payment capabilities across a range of commercial scenarios, driving demand for value-added services such as virtual bank cards, intelligent marketing, and other embedded financial services. As a result, segment revenue increased 83.2% year-over-year to RMB 164.2 million. The performance of this segment reflects the increasing integration of Lianlian’s payment capabilities into broader enterprise workflows, providing end-to-end support for companies in their international expansion and operational efficiency improvements.
AI-Native + Globalization Strategy Delivers Tangible Products
In H1 2026, Lianlian DigiTech translated its AI-Native + Globalization strategy into a series of concrete products and capabilities, delivering measurable outcomes for customers across its key business segments. Agent Wallet was launched as an intelligent payment infrastructure developed to address core payment requirements in the agent era, extending Lianlian’s capabilities beyond conventional payment processing. In addition, the launch of multiple AI products and enterprise-grade agent platforms further enhanced its intelligent service system. These developments were supported by deeper integrations with global network partners including Visa and UnionPay International, advancing agentic payment applications from technical validation to live deployment.
Capital Management and Shareholder Returns
Lianlian maintained a disciplined approach to capital management. Since initiating its share repurchase program in April 2025, Lianlian has repurchased approximately 40 million shares in total, returning more than HK$250 million to shareholders.
Outlook
Lianlian will continue to execute on its AI-Native + Globalization strategy, deepening its global footprint and strengthening competitive advantages built on trust, data and global payment network effects, and empowering Chinese enterprises for high-quality global expansion.
For more information, please refer to the 2026 interim results announcement:
https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2026/0820/2026082001339.pdf
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About Lianlian DigiTech
Lianlian DigiTech Co., Ltd. (“Lianlian DigiTech” or “Lianlian”) was founded in 2009 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2024 (stock code: 2598.HK). As a leading AI-driven digital payment service provider headquartered in China with a global footprint, Lianlian adheres to its mission of “Connecting the world, Empowering global commerce” and pursues an “AI-Native + Globalization” strategy. Lianlian is committed to building a trusted global intelligent financial infrastructure, enabling seamless connectivity between Chinese enterprises and global businesses.
The Company’s core business comprises digital payment services and value-added services. Digital payment services encompass global and domestic payments and include a variety of products such as pay-in, pay-out, acquiring, foreign exchange, virtual bank card, and payment aggregation services. Value-added services focus on business and technology services that deeply integrate with payment scenarios.
As of June 30, 2026, the Company has established a global licensing portfolio comprising 68 payment licenses and related qualifications. As the only Chinese provider holding all state-level money transmitter licenses in the U.S., the Company’s regulatory leadership remains a core competitive advantage. Furthermore, its VATP license positions it at the forefront of digital currency and blockchain technology-based financial services. Lianlian supports services in more than 200 countries and regions, enables transaction settlement in over 140 currencies, and has served a cumulative total of over 13.3 million customers.
For enquiries, please contact:
Burson Group
Isaac Chan Tel: (852) 6685 9096
Joyce Zhan Tel: (852) 9142 2528
Email: lianlian@hkstrategies.com
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