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一 |     FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried believed in utilitarianism and thought rules against lying or stealing inhibited his ability to maximize the greatest benefit for the most people, his former girlfriend and co-worker testified Wednesday at his federal fraud trial."He didn't think rules like 'don't lie' or 'don't steal' fit into that framework," Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's on-again, off-again girlfriend, said.She said Bankman-Fried's belief caused her to accept behavior she recognized as wrong."I think it made me more willing to do things like lie or steal over time. When I started working at Alameda, I don't think I would have believed if you told me I would be sending false balance sheets or taking customer money," Ellison, who served as CEO of Alameda Research, said. "Over time it became something I was more comfortable with."Bankman-Fried faces seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering centered on his alleged use of customer deposits on the crypto trading platform FTX to cover losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.On the witness stand for a second day Wednesday, Ellison walked the jury through Alameda balance sheets which, by October 2022, showed Bankman-Fried's private hedge fund owed FTX customers nearly $14 billion."We had a lot of risk on and we owed a lot of money to FTX customers," Ellison said. "We had no way to repay it."She said Bankman-Fried thought about trying to raise money from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, or by selling shares in FTX, which would collapse in bankruptcy the following month, in November 2022."I was in a state of dread. I was thinking, worrying, imagining every day what would happen if people tried to withdraw too much money at one time," she said. "I was imagining all the FTX customers who we worked with who would get hurt by this."To shore up Alameda's precarious financial position Bankman-Fried told Ellison to repay Alameda's loans with money it borrowed surreptitiously from FTX customers, she testified Wednesday."He directed me to continue repaying Alameda's loans," Ellison said."How?" prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked."By taking money from FTX customer funds," she replied.When Sassoon asked her if she knew it was wrong, Ellison replied, "Yeah I thought it was wrong," but continued to do it because "Sam told me to."By that point, Alameda had taken about $10 billion from FTX and Ellison said she worried its lender, Genesis, would find out."We had been borrowing increasing amounts of money from FTX customers and I didn't want Genesis to know that," Ellison said. "I didn't want Genesis or others to know that Alameda was borrowing a lot of money from FTX."Ellison said Bankman-Fried cautioned her against putting anything in writing, once telling her, "Anything we put on Slack should be something we're comfortable seeing in The New York Times."Ellison also described a "large bribe to Chinese government officials to get some of our trading accounts unlocked." Alameda had two trading accounts worth about a billion dollars on exchanges based in China, which were both frozen in 2021 as part of a Chinese government investigation into money laundering.It was a substantial amount of Alameda's trading capital at the time and Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of saying "that we should send the cryptocurrency transfers" equaling about $100 million.。      8月25日，国务院新闻办公室在北京举行新闻发布会，商务部新闻发言人、副部长兼国际贸易谈判副代表凌激，福建省副省长赵增连，商务部外国投资管理司司长孟华婷，商务部投资促进事务局局长刘民强，厦门市副市长林志成介绍第二十六届中国国际投资贸易洽谈会有关情况，并答记者问。

二 | 记者 李旭伦 摄　　北京8月25日电 题：深耕投资主题 第二十六届投洽会亮点前瞻　　记者黄韬铭、谢希瑶　　第二十六届中国国际投资贸易洽谈会将于9月8日至11日在福建省厦门市举行，目前各项筹备工作已基本就绪。国务院新闻办公室25日举行新闻发布会，介绍有关情况。　　投洽会以“扩大双向投资 共促全球发展”为永久主题。本届投洽会深耕投资主题，设置“投资中国”“中国投资”“国际投资”三大板块，规划设置了14个专业展区，专业化更加鲜明。

三 | 　　“今年金融专区的面积和参展参会机构数量比去年都实现了翻番，参展的头部金融机构和上市公司达140家，将带来更多的投资和金融服务方案以及项目合作机遇。”商务部副部长兼国际贸易谈判副代表凌激说。

四 | 　　凌激介绍，本届投洽会将举办跨国公司座谈会、跨国投资趋势发布会、产供链国际合作对接会等主题活动，为外资企业深耕中国市场和中国企业出海提供双向对接平台。此外，还首次安排广东和青海两省作为“双主宾省”，兼顾了东西部。各省（区、市）、计划单列市、新疆生产建设兵团均将参展参会，并举办双向投资推介和项目发布。

五 | 　　123个国家和地区的代表团报名参加，60个国家和地区设展；举办中美省州、中欧企业联盟成立5周年等专题经贸活动……本届投洽会的国际“朋友圈”更广。　　“本届投洽会首次设置了‘双主宾国’，由芬兰和沙特担任，这反映出投洽会的国际热度和双向投资的鲜明特征。”凌激说，尽管当前全球跨境投资的不稳定、不确定性上升，本届投洽会依然受到了国际社会的高度关注，境内外各界积极参与，有助于凝聚各方共识，推进务实合作。

六 | 　　展馆升级扩容，大幅提升展览展示能级，将带来更多元的合作机遇。　　“这次大会整体迁至厦门国际博览中心，由往届的12万平方米扩大到今年的20万平方米，全面展示新质生产力、‘丝路海运’、国际供应链等热点投资领域。”福建省副省长赵增连介绍，两岸融合发展专区也实现了面积上的翻番，进一步提质升级，集中展示半导体、金融服务、生物医药等领域的合作新成果。

七 | 　　赵增连介绍，全省目前已经梳理招商项目828个，发布在“云上投洽会”以及福建投资促进网等平台，供境内外客商开展预对接、预洽谈，大会期间还将分批开展专题路演推介活动。　　“展洽一体”是投洽会的一大特色。

八 | “今年将继续加大优质项目供给力度，设置了20多个路演区，实现各个场馆全覆盖，从目前排期来看，可以说场场爆满。”商务部投资促进事务局局长刘民强说。　　商务部外国投资管理司司长孟华婷介绍，在第二十六届投洽会期间，将围绕重点国别、重点产业、重点平台举办16场“投资中国”活动，多方位展示中国投资机遇。

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