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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 4h
"On Aselsan's stance toward China, Akyol said, 'Our business and company policy is fully compliant with NATO,' suggesting the company prioritizes business with Western countries." asia.nikkei.com/business/aer...
asia.nikkei.com
Turkish arms group eyes Japan ties in air defense and underwater drones
Aselsan president seeks new markets as regional threats intensify
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Chinese biotechs operate with unmatched efficiency in preclinical discovery and early-stage clinical development, utilising a fast-to-signal approach that generates crucial First-in-Human data faster than traditional hubs in Boston or San Francisco." www.thinkchina.sg/economy/why-...
thinkchina.sg
Why China’s biotech rise is harder to contain than AI
China is emerging as a biotech powerhouse, but its rise is entwined with US drugmakers through research, licensing and supply chains, making decoupling far more difficult than in AI. Academic Chen Xia...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Chinese semiconductor plants amassed hundreds of immersion lithography machines worth billions of dollars in recent years, according to former US officials, who urged Washington and its allies to shut down further exports." www.scmp.com/tech/tech-wa...
scmp.com
China’s buying spree in ASML DUV gear prompts US calls for total export ban
DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
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Koç University Center for Asian Studies @kuasia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
KUASIA attended the opening of the "Monsoon Dreams" film festival at Istanbul Modern, in partnership with the Consulates General of the Philippines and Malaysia in Istanbul and the Royal Thai Embassy in Ankara. The festival continues until October 4: www.istanbulmodern.org/en/cinema/mo...
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Koç University Center for Asian Studies @kuasia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
KUASIA delivered two lectures as part of the Koç University -Kobe University Summer School: "Food, Culture and Society in Türkiye" (Merve Yahşi, Sept 21) and "The Political Economy of Türkiye" (Burak Gürel, Sept 23). We thank Koç University Office of International Programs for the invitation.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The likely outcome is a bifurcation in Chinese strategy: continued diffusion at the low end of the AI value chain, with Chinese labs increasingly withholding systems that Beijing regards as threats to social stability or state control." www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A shortage of domestic supply and tightening American export controls have led Chinese tech groups to seek more computing capacity overseas. Such lease deals, allowed under US rules, could also offer access to Nvidia’s cutting-edge processors not available in China." www.ft.com/content/8799...
ft.com
China’s Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push
WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group’s south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The supply-demand ratio for nearly every job category in the semiconductor industry is well above 2, meaning there are more than two job openings for every job seeker on average." asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nvidia "benefits from having an estimated four million software developers worldwide who use CUDA, a software platform for Nvidia chips. In an announcement Wednesday...DeepSeek presented its work with Huawei as a potential alternative to CUDA." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
nytimes.com
DeepSeek and Huawei Target a Key Source of Nvidia’s A.I. Dominance
In China’s push for self-reliance in artificial intelligence, DeepSeek and Huawei have teamed up to develop software tools for advanced chips.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Muazzam bir örnek vaka olarak kayda geçti.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"FirstDate is not the first time Singapore’s government has attempted to play Cupid with its population. In 1984, it set up the Social Development Unit, a matchmaking agency aimed at encouraging marriage between graduates." www.ft.com/content/a214...
ft.com
Singapore taps Nobel-winning formula for government dating app
City-state takes matters into its own hands with pilot programme aimed at boosting marriages in fast-ageing country
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"AMD has agreed to acquire AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s start-up World Labs for $8.2bn in an all-stock transaction that will push the Nvidia competitor further beyond chips into model development." www.ft.com/content/3334...
ft.com
AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s AI start-up for $8bn
World Labs was founded by Stanford University researcher to work on AI models that understand 3D environments
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The export of workers enables the Indian government to ease socio-economic strains at home, where frustration abounds over the lack of good job opportunities." www.ft.com/content/afb9...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"While the trend dubbed 'De-CATLification' by Chinese media reflects significant investments into diversified battery supply chains by carmakers, many analysts are sceptical." www.ft.com/content/8d8e...
ft.com
Geely unveils sub-5 minute EV charging as battery race revs up
Volvo Cars and Lotus owner is among Chinese carmakers seeking to reduce dependence on market leader CATL
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of the equipment already installed in Chinese chip fabs, domestic tools made up 35%, up 10 percentage points from 25% in 2024 and higher than South Korea's domestic share of installed equipment, which is about 20%. www.guancha.cn/CaiJing/2026...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The report, according to one of the sources, was 'entirely false.' But it also 'almost started a war,' the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations." edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Moving the semiconductor supply chain back to the West "would not make sense on cost; yet continuing to rely heavily on China conflicts with the supply-chain diversification the US and Europe are pushing for. So, India got its chance." m.guancha.cn/GuoJi%C2%B7Z...
m.guancha.cn
背刺闻泰后,安世半导体想把产能交给印度-观察者网
9月17日,荷兰芯片厂商安世宣布与印度塔塔电子达成战略合作。表面看,这只是印度半导体产业又拿下一家国际客户。
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026
The European Union outlined plans on Wednesday to restrict social media use for children under 15, an aggressive step to curtail access to apps like TikTok and Instagram across the 27-nation bloc.
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Age Limits for Social Media Outlined by European Union
A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Turkey “accounted for just 0.1 per cent of China’s total outward investment, while Chinese investment in Europe was about 38 times larger.” www.ft.com/content/7265... Exactly. On Chinese investment in Turkey and the Customs Union’s (unrealized) role in attracting it: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
ft.com
UK and Japan seek to fully benefit from ‘Made in Europe’ car sector rules
Britain says its automobile industry should not be caught in the crossfire of an EU push to counter China
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Semiconductor performance will determine whether China moves from the semiperiphery to the core of the capitalist world economy. These figures show it still has far to go. cset.georgetown.edu/article/insi...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Some buyers who shifted production elsewhere said they are keeping or restoring Chinese suppliers because factories abroad struggle to match its skilled labour, supplier networks and reliable ⁠power." www.reuters.com/business/ret...
reuters.com
Companies left China to dodge tariffs. Now some are heading back
A year after shifting production and sourcing out of China to avoid higher U.S. tariffs, some companies are learning that replicating the country's factory ecosystem is not so easy and are bringing ma...
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Koç University Center for Asian Studies @kuasia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The article co-authored by Serdar Yurtçiçek (KUASIA Visiting Scholar, 2026), “Türkiye in China’s Wartime Geopolitical Imagination: Competing Visions of Neutrality, Modernization and Democratization (1939–1949),” has been published in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
25'inde Ankara'da Textum'un özel sayısına (textumdergi.net/dosya-cin-do...) referansla Çin'i konuşacağız.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
YZ şirketlerindeki araştırmacıların net uyarıları bir yana, bu şirketlerin sahipleri bile YZ'nin kontrolsüz gelişiminin dünyayı felakete sürüklemesini önlemek için (yalnızca ulusal değil, küresel ölçekte) merkezi planlamanın zorunlu olduğunu (neredeyse açıkça) itiraf ediyorlar.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Strikingly, it is not just researchers calling for it. Even AI company owners (almost explicitly) admit that central planning (not merely nationally, but globally) is necessary to prevent uncontrolled AI development from destroying the world. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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Koç University Center for Asian Studies @kuasia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
KUASIA Administrative Assistant Merve Yahşi's book review on "Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy" by Douglas de Toledo Piza has been published in the International Migration. doi.org/10.1111/imig...
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<citation type='book' id='imig70220-cit-0001'><bookTitle>Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy</bookTitle>. By <author><givenNames>Douglas</givenNames> <familyNamePrefix>de</familyNamePrefix> <familyName>Toledo Piza</familyName></author>, Stanford, CA: <publisherName>Stanford University Press</publisherName>, <pubYear year='2025'>2025</pubYear>. 234 pp. $28.00 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐364332‐1</citation>
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The private sector’s role seems increasingly significant in Vietnamese state capitalism. But we need this sort of detailed analysis to assess the relative weight of the private and public sectors: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.ft.com/content/35a0...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Batı’nın küresel tedarik zincirlerinde Çin’e alternatif arayışı bağlamında sıklıkla gündeme gelen Hindistan’ın bu süreçten neden ciddi ölçüde yararlanamayacağını tarihsel nedenleriyle birlikte konuşmuştuk. Veriler bunu doğruluyor. youtu.be/AmoMFmXe5ak?...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
China’s “whole-of-the-nation” drive to reduce dependence on foreign technology in chip production 👇 www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Russia is set to receive a shipment of fuel from India...The shipment underlines the severity of Russia’s fuel shortages after the strikes cut domestic refining capacity by about 40 per cent." www.ft.com/content/fda9...
ft.com
Russia forced to import fuel from India as Ukrainian strikes damage refineries
Shipment underlines crisis facing Moscow after drone attacks cut supplies and led to widespread shortages
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"For decades, America’s tech dominance rested on a simple formula: attract the world’s brightest minds and keep them. Yang Zhilin’s story suggests that approach is being tested — not just because the US has become less welcoming but because China has become more magnetic."
ft.com
Why the US is losing Chinese AI stars
More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"The new measures could be incorporated into the next revision of China’s catalogue of technologies prohibited or restricted from export, the people said, reflecting Beijing’s growing confidence that it has established a global lead in some areas of AI." www.ft.com/content/6049...
ft.com
China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips
Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The greatest consequence of the Iran war may not be the disruption it has caused, but ​the revelation that China now possesses the tools to manage such shocks largely on its own." www.reuters.com/commentary/r...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The NSF "has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees...There are a handful of notable omissions, however, including Tsinghua University." www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sanayi casusluğunun Sanayi Devrimi'nden günümüze değin kapitalistler arasındaki rekabetin ayrılmaz bir unsuru olduğunu konuşmuştuk. youtu.be/_1iHSyqkZoA?... Apple'ın OpenAI'a açtığı dava bunun yeni ve çarpıcı bir örneğini sunuyor. www.ft.com/content/5054...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"The 15th Five-Year Plan wagers that a state-mobilised system can cut across subnational differences and cultivate the open-ended inquiry it has historically struggled to sustain." eastasiaforum.org/2026/05/09/c...
eastasiaforum.org
China’s bet on frontier science
The 15th Five-Year Plan seeks to turn China’s industrial strength into frontier science, but structural constraints may determine how far it can go
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Although China's unemployment rate has hovered around 5%-6% for a decade, gig work has helped keep those numbers in check...Yet an influx of gig workers is increasingly outpacing demand in some sectors, slowing incomes." www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"DeepSeek's chip push coincides with the company's first embrace of outside capital. The company was slated to raise $7 billion in a maiden funding round valuing it at between $52 billion and $59 billion, Reuters reported in June." www.reuters.com/world/china/...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a ​push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on ...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Chinese government is considering the adoption of "a tiered system:basic open-source tools subject to a simple filing, more advanced technologies facing security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models barred from public release or restricted to domestic use." www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month ​about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, th...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"The question truly worth asking is: after distillation becomes increasingly difficult, can AI companies that rose by 'borrowing power' still find a true path to independent innovation?" www.tmtpost.com/8048728.html
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"The MATCH Act...would not just block sales of DUV machines to China, it would also restrict ASML’s provision of servicing, spare parts and software support for the hundreds of DUV machines already there." www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
economist.com
Has China obtained the world’s most important machine?
Its Dutch manufacturer is fighting to rebut American claims
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"The substance of the new whole-of-nation system...is not merely about technologies and equipment where we are 'being squeezed,' but about 'getting there first'; not merely about 'shoring up weaknesses,' but also about 'forging strengths'.” cjrb.cjn.cn/h5/html5/202...
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新型举国体制,是从解决“有无”走向解决“优劣”
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Chinese policymakers are considering ways to discourage researchers from submitting findings to foreign journals, amid concerns that academic publications could leak industrial and technological innovations. www.ft.com/content/64a8...
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"The efforts to access Claude from China illustrate the continuing value of leading US AI products to Chinese engineers despite growing access restrictions and the increased competitiveness of domestic models." www.ft.com/content/ad03...
ft.com
Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude
Engineers are still finding ways to use AI models despite stringent restrictions
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OpenAI suggests that "America’s leading AI developers allot 5 percent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state’s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents." www.ft.com/content/7c80...
ft.com
OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Çin'in politik ekonomisi ile jeopolitiği arasındaki bağlantıya dair kapsamlı bir ufuk turu yaptık. youtu.be/qQXs1W_UOhA?...
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ABD ve Avrupa, Çin'i Tehdit Olarak Görmeye Devam Ediyor! Doç. Dr. Burak Gürel Anlattı | Harici
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Çin'in politik ekonomisi ile jeopolitiği arasındaki bağlantıya dair kapsamlı bir ufuk turu yaptık. youtu.be/qQXs1W_UOhA?...
youtu.be
ABD ve Avrupa, Çin'i Tehdit Olarak Görmeye Devam Ediyor! Doç. Dr. Burak Gürel Anlattı | Harici
YouTube video by Harici
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"The decision to store Typhon hardware locally is...the clearest signal yet that a new land-based missile deployments era has arrived in the Indo-Pacific." www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06...
japantimes.co.jp
U.S. missile moves in Japan send China clear message: A new era has arrived
The planned longer-term presence of a U.S. midrange missile system in Japan, combined with the fielding of other advanced weaponry, is complicating Chinese military planning.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Resolution 68, adopted by Vietnam’s Politburo in May 2025...explicitly elevates the private sector to the 'most important force' in the economy and sets a concrete target of developing at least 20 national champions by 2030." thediplomat.com/2026/06/viet...
thediplomat.com
Vietnam’s National Champions
Risks and opportunities for foreign investors.
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Burak Gürel @burakgurel1980.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
China turns the tables on "decoupling": "Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of alleged connections to the People’s Liberation Army." www.ft.com/content/d72a...
ft.com
Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company
iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising semiconductor prices
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