Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

This is John Patchert, a conversation with Mark Simon, long time deputy and director of Apple Daily in Hong Kong now closed and persecuted by the authorities from the mainland.

Jimmy Lye, the boss of Appletalee, remains incarcerated and charged with various constructed offenses.

He's a citizen of the United Kingdom.

At the same time, the people in the mainland are not waiting.

They know that the persecution is increasing.

And therefore, buying gold, and Mark comments on what about the gold? What about the

confiscation that's going on in bankers and other high-wage earning members of the mutual funds and banks in Hong Kong as

well as the mainland.

Would the authorities go for confiscation? Mark's answer is blunt.

Confiscation of gold selling at a premium and China is not slowing anybody down.

Physical gold.

The kind you hide. Mark Simon, former Apple Daily, speaking from Taipei, Taiwan.

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