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HONG KONG MARKETS JUST IGNITED a geopolitical powder keg, as shares of China’s military-linked AI firm Zhipu SOARED in a terrifying debut. This isn’t just a business story—it’s a GUT-WRENCHING BETRAYAL of Western security, a $558 million IPO that FUNDS Beijing’s war machine under the guise of “innovation.” While U.S. tech giants face crippling regulations, a company PLACED ON THE ENTITY LIST for working with the People’s Liberation Army is now cashing in on international exchanges, its stock climbing a sickening 10%.
Zhipu, one of China’s so-called “AI tigers,” is a PRIME INSTRUMENT in the CCP’s crusade for AI dominance. BACKED BY BEIJING and founded by elite state researchers, its global expansion into the UK, Singapore, and the Middle East is a SHOCKING intelligence operation playing out in plain sight. They openly admit that 70% of IPO proceeds will fuel R&D for models that could soon surpass our own. OpenAI itself has FLAGGED ZHIPU as a top competitor, proving that years of U.S. sanctions and tech embargoes have UTTERLY FAILED.
The harrowing implication is clear: our own financial systems are now BANKROLLING the very entities tasked with dismantling our technological and military edge. As rival MiniMax prepares its own listing, this is no longer an economic race—it’s a FUNDED ASSAULT on our future, and we are the unwitting patrons. In the race for AI supremacy, the West has just handed its rival the keys to the kingdom and a blank check to build the weapons.




