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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner.

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Speaker 2: In the last US session, we had a rally in

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Speaker 2: chip makers, led by Intel. Those shares jumped sixteen percent

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Speaker 2: on reports that Intel could be broken up in a

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Speaker 2: deal involving TSMC and Broadcom. And in a moment we'll

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Speaker 2: take a look at the price action in the States

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Speaker 2: with Jim Thorn. He is chief market strategist at Wellington

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Speaker 2: Alta's Private wealth. But let's begin in Hong Kong. Joining

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Speaker 2: us now is Jason Lu. He is head of APAC

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Speaker 2: Equity and Derivative Strategy at BNP Periba. Jason, thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us. I'd like to start with the story on

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Speaker 2: what we saw yesterday in Chinese tech stocks. According to

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Speaker 2: what I was reading, much of this move higher was

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Speaker 2: tied to President Chi Jinping's public meeting with some leaders

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Speaker 2: of big tech in China. What do you make of

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Speaker 2: what's been happening?

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Speaker 3: Sure, thanks for having me on. Certainly yesterday's rally, it's

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Speaker 3: quite impressive, especially on the back of already a very

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Speaker 3: strong rally. So I think what we need to do

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Speaker 3: is perhaps take a look back at what has happened

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Speaker 3: over the past week, because I think all of these

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Speaker 3: are a little bit interconnected. You could argue that everything

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Speaker 3: started around deepsey our one model, because they originally announced

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Speaker 3: a V three back in December, but with lesser kind

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Speaker 3: of global popularity. So I think the success of deep

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Speaker 3: cr Run has fundamentally changed investor perception on Chinese equity

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Speaker 3: and tech in particular, where there's now an understanding that

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Speaker 3: Chinese tech company can be competent globally and perhaps operating

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Speaker 3: at a much lower cost than the global peers. I

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Speaker 3: think the President She's meeting it's also a continuation of

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Speaker 3: that thing because previously President She held a similar meeting

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Speaker 3: with a high level private enterpainse As entrepreneurs back in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, and some local observer attributed this to the

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Speaker 3: rally that we have seen subsequently in the market. And

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Speaker 3: so the way we interpret the latest situation is that

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Speaker 3: I think the policy makers in China have also realized

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Speaker 3: the power or the breakthrough that some of these recent

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Speaker 3: technology announcement has came through, and it greatly increased the

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Speaker 3: confidence in the market. And so I think President She's

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Speaker 3: meeting together with several high level officials further confirmed that

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Speaker 3: the Chinese policy makers are now very much embracing these

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Speaker 3: technological breakthrough and so we should anticipate further policy support

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Speaker 3: for the private enterprise, and that perhaps, like you said,

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Speaker 3: contributed to the further rally that we've seen yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to understand whether or not the enthusiasm is

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Speaker 2: more tied to artificial intelligence and by extension, cloud computing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we can put that under the umbrella of software

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Speaker 2: more so than on the hardware side. Do you think

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Speaker 2: that's fair.

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Speaker 3: I think at this stage the rally, certainly investors are

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Speaker 3: becoming more selective on how they are positioning. We have

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Speaker 3: seen a similar transition like in the US. You may

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Speaker 3: recall that when the CHGPT phenomenon first started, I think

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Speaker 3: most investors were solely focusing on the hardware side of

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Speaker 3: center and now we're gradually moving to software. So what

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Speaker 3: is happening in China at the moment is this very

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Speaker 3: some extend in Europe over the past one to two years.

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Speaker 3: I think if some of you who have experienced these

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Speaker 3: little bit of that bottleneck when it comes to processing speeds.

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Speaker 3: So perhaps the cloud computing has been raised to a

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Speaker 3: higher urgency because they desperately need more bandwidth to handle

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Speaker 3: this surprising demand globally as well. The other thing worth

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Speaker 3: noting is from a index composition perspective, because there is

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Speaker 3: a significant difference in terms of the index composition of

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Speaker 3: of these well known Chinese internet companies are only listed

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping you can give me a little bit of

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Speaker 3: You mentioned about robotics, and certainly we have seen in

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Speaker 3: good progress. And in fact, at the so called Spring

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Speaker 3: your earlier point about President She's meeting with private entrepreneur.

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Speaker 3: One of the entrepreneurs actually is the CEO of that

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Speaker 3: So certainly, from a policy making standpoint, there seems to

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Speaker 3: comes to investing, however, there's also this divide between private

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Speaker 3: of the opportunity happens to be in the private space.

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Speaker 3: But we have indeed seen investors trying to ask the

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Speaker 3: one area that for the listed market. People are also

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Speaker 2: I think we can agree Jason that the one thing

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Speaker 2: that continues to hold back economic activity in China and

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Speaker 2: getting indications maybe that there's some type of nationalization when

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Speaker 2: it comes to China's VUNKA, and I'm wondering whether that

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Speaker 2: would send a signal that policymakers in Beijing are really

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Speaker 2: trying to do a lot more to bring stability not

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Speaker 2: only did the property market. Maybe it's a little bit

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Speaker 2: more than stability, it's something where it looks as though

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Speaker 2: a solid floor has been put under the market. Is

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Speaker 3: I think that's a great question, because it is true

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Speaker 3: that the AI development today will not resolve the property

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Speaker 3: part of this overall confidence positive feedback loop. Because part

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Speaker 3: helped kind of change the narrative. I think it's also

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Speaker 3: part of rebuilding that confidence. But our view is that

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Speaker 3: this process may take a little bit longer because there's

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Speaker 3: still a lot of excess infantry to be digest. But

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Speaker 3: if there's indeed a change in the feedback loop when

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Speaker 3: think this will certainly allow the broader market kid to

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Speaker 3: think about the evaluation rerating even further because currently it's

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Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about trade because

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday we had President Trump saying that he is

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Speaker 2: planning tariffs on auto, semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports of around

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Speaker 2: tariff on all Chinese goods. How do you understand the

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Speaker 3: That's a good question because if you look back at

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Speaker 3: same time, China also has the benefit of going through

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Speaker 3: think that there will be a second round of teriff

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Speaker 3: So there will be some incremental headwind, but at least

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Speaker 2: It's a very good point, Jason, Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for lending your perspective. Jason Leu there head of APAC

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Speaker 2: Hong Kong here on the Daybreak Gaisia Podcast. Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to the Daybreak Gaisia Podcast. I'm Doug Prisner. So the

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Speaker 2: US equity market returned from the holiday and set a

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Speaker 2: Joining me now for a closer look at the action

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Speaker 2: Jim Thorne. He is the chief market strategist at Wellington

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Speaker 2: ALTUS Private Wealth. Jim joins us from Toronto. Good of

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Speaker 2: you to make time to chat with us. What did

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Speaker 2: you make of today's price section.

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Speaker 1: I think we're just you know, climbing the walla worry

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Speaker 1: and it just seems to me that we're having this

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, semiconductors. I think we're going to

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Speaker 1: get a nice bid going into the Navidia earnings call.

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Speaker 1: And you know now that all the fears of the

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Speaker 1: deep seek, you know, popping of the AI bubble is over.

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Speaker 1: You know, Semi's can run here. And I also think

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Speaker 1: at the same point in time, very interesting things happening

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Speaker 1: in the Ukraine. And you know, Doug, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think the cornerstone to President's Trump second term is going

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Speaker 1: to be peace and a piece dividend coming back. And

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Speaker 1: you know, Ukraine, We're going to get a deal there,

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Speaker 1: and I honestly think that we're going to get a

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Speaker 1: deal in China. And so I think, you know, investors

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Speaker 1: have to start looking at the fact that the cornerstone

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Speaker 2: Well, Jim, I'm wondering if you are as optimistic about

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Speaker 2: President Trump's trade policy today. Even he floated the idea

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Speaker 2: I was looking at a survey today from Bank of America.

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Speaker 1: No, I think you've got the demographics of the of

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Speaker 1: I think mister Trump is going to usher in four

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Speaker 2: But Jim, I'm wondering if there is one thing that

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Speaker 1: Well, it's never saying never, right, I mean, you've got

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Speaker 2: Jim, we'll leave it there. Thank you for joining us.

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