☕️ Good morning, friends,

we’re starting this Tuesday with a cup of ginseng coffee.

asiabits aims to combine the best of East and West — and it seems that trend has now reached China’s coffee industry.

Ingredients from Traditional Chinese Medicine are being mixed into coffee. Ginseng, for example, is said to help reduce stress.

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P.S. Our intern Quirin has a little crush on a professor who teaches AI in Beijing. And he’s not alone — thousands of people online think she’s stunning too. What do you think?

Slight continuation of the downward trend

Asian stock markets fluctuated sharply on Monday after Donald Trump first threatened 100% tariffs on Chinese goods — then backtracked just a day later. Hong Kong and Seoul fell significantly at first but recovered slightly by the end of trading.

In China, stocks also stabilized after an early drop. The trigger was Beijing’s expansion of export controls on rare earths — another round in the ongoing trade spat with the US.

Stocks in focus:

• Tencent & WuXi AppTec: sharp losses in Hong Kong.

• InnoTek (SGX): +37% after announcing new manufacturing orders for Nvidia GPU components and server enclosures for IEIT Systems.

TOP BIT

🇳🇱 Netherlands place China-owned chipmaker under state supervision

In a first for European industrial policy, the Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-led semiconductor firm. The reason: concerns over Europe’s technological sovereignty.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs invoked the emergency Goods Availability Act — a law that had never been used before. It allows The Hague to block management decisions that …