Nobody in last 50 years has multiplied more human intelligence than 20 million taiwanese peoples. They substituted army rule with intelligence co-creation thanks to humantech greats Li, Guo, Chang.
Historically Taiwan people are also one of biggest investors in Chiense mainland- the West have lot of work to empower their peoples AI. Here are Groc estimates NB Japan's support easy to under-restimate as it transfered engineering capabilities as well as money, and moew directly
Chart: Countries Supplying
Money Through Hong Kong to China (1979–1997)
|
Country
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Estimated FDI via HK (1979–1997)
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Share of HK’s FDI
|
Key Sectors
|
Mechanism
|
|
Taiwan
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$10–20 billion
|
10–15%
|
Textiles, electronics,
footwear
|
Hong Kong subsidiaries,
shell firms
|
|
United States
|
$5–15 billion
|
5–10%
|
Consumer goods, oil,
hotels
|
Hong Kong offices, joint
ventures
|
|
Japan
|
$5–15 billion
|
5–10%
|
Automobiles,
electronics, machinery
|
Hong Kong subsidiaries,
ODA
|
|
United Kingdom
|
$3–7 billion
|
3–5%
|
Trading, real estate,
utilities
|
HKSE, British firms’
subsidiaries
|
|
Singapore/Overseas
Chinese
|
$5–7 billion
|
5%
|
Manufacturing, real
estate, palm oil
|
Hong Kong holding
companies
|
|
Hong Kong (Local)
|
$30–60 billion
|
30–40%
|
Real estate,
manufacturing, ports
|
Direct investment,
tycoons
|
Notes: Total Hong Kong FDI
to China ~$100–150 billion. Shares are approximate due to data gaps. Other
countries (e.g., Germany) contributed smaller amounts.
Intelligence transfer between asians and west coast america is fascinating . Some of Grok's figures at june 2025 (please note verification needed)
Chart: Connections Between
Ren Family, Hong Kong Tycoons, and Taiwanese-American Families
|
Group/Individual
|
FDI Knowledge (1975–1995)
|
Stanford Ties
|
Tech/Philanthropy
|
Huawei/Ren Family Ties
|
Human Intelligence Impact
|
|
Li Ka-shing (HK)
|
~$5–10B in SEZs; CK
Hutchison
|
$40M to UC Berkeley/UCSF
|
AI (Siri), medical
($3.8B)
|
None; 3 HK competes
|
AI, genomics research
|
|
Ronnie Chan (HK)
|
~$2–3B in real estate
|
$75M to Biohub
|
Biotech, education ($1B)
|
None; no overlap
|
Medical AI, U.S.-China
exchanges
|
|
Victor Fung (HK)
|
~$2–3B in trade
|
HKU/Tsinghua funds
|
GBA tech ($500M)
|
Indirect supply chain
|
AI startups, trade
networks
|
|
Jensen Huang (TW-Am)
|
None; post-1995
|
$50M to AI Center
|
NVIDIA GPUs ($115B)
|
None; competes (Ascend)
|
Deep learning, AI chips
|
|
Jerry Yang (TW-Am)
|
None; post-1995
|
$75M to Energy Bldg
|
Yahoo!, AI startups
($2B)
|
None; no overlap
|
Internet, AI investment
|
|
Joseph Tsai (TW)
|
None; post-1995
|
Alibaba AI Lab collab
|
Alibaba AI, AAPI ($500M)
|
None; AliCloud competes
|
E-commerce AI, AAPI
youth
|
|
Morris Chang (TW)
|
None; TSMC 1987
|
$10M to semiconductors
|
TSMC chips ($3B)
|
None; cutoff 2020
|
AI hardware foundation
|