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Chapter 22: Suffering

1998 is not as magnificent as 1997, and is more like a continuation of the major events in 1997. As January just passed, international speculators that had temporarily disappeared gathered in Southeast Asia to make a comeback.

With sufficient ammunition, Kaos finally didn't need to watch it like last year. Instead, he also joined this capital feast.

As early as the end of January, Kaos began to short the Indonesian rupiah with ten times of leverage. As a bridgehead for international speculators in 1998, Indonesia is the first battle and a goal that must be conquered.

But the Indonesian government is naturally not a fool, and it has realized that the countermeasures formulated by the International Monetary Fund for Indonesia have not achieved the expected results.

On February 11, the Indonesian government announced that it would implement a fixed exchange rate system for the Indonesian rupiah to maintain a fixed exchange rate between the US dollar to stabilize the Indonesian rupiah.

However, this move was unanimously opposed by the International Monetary Fund, the United States and Western Europe. Everyone was waiting to make a fortune, how could such a thing be allowed to happen?

The International Monetary Fund directly threatened the Indonesian government and threatened to withdraw its aid to Indonesia. This put Indonesia in a major political and economic crisis.

In order to stabilize politics and maintain the support of European and American governments, Indonesian President Suharto was able to cancel the fixed exchange rate. The result of this was to let the ratio of Indonesian rupiah to US dollars fall below 10,000:1 on February 16.

This directly impressed the SGD, Malaysian Ringgit, Thai Baht, Philippine Peso and others all fell one after another. It was not until April 8 that Indonesia reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a new economic reform plan that the Southeast Asian foreign exchange market temporarily calmed down.

However, at this time, the ratio of Indonesian rupiah to US dollar had reached 14,150:1, down nearly one-third.

The 60 million US dollars invested by Kaos had also increased to a figure of 280 million US dollars. In the future, Kaos should continue to work hard and follow international capital to prepare for the offensive RB.

But at the end of May, the Chinese in New York began to get a little restless. All of this was caused by some rumors in Southeast Asia and Indonesia, which made local Chinese in the United States feel uneasy, and this feeling of uneasiness has also been widely spread among Chinese people all over the world.

"Mom, isn't there any news from Grandpa's second place yet?"

Kaos looked at his mother who was walking to him and asked in a low voice, while his eyes were also scanning around.

There are houses surrounded by traditional Chinese architectural colors, which are a bit dilapidated, but there are many things that Caos has never seen before, which look even more ancient and traditional.

A large number of Chinese people gathered around here, blocking the import and export of the street, making it impossible for American police to enter here, let alone ordinary American residents. In the most central building, there were no noise and disputes.

This is New York's Chinatown. Kaos has only been here a few times in the past, but this is the first time he has seen such a formation. He is like a powder barrel and is xenophobic and cannot touch any Mars.

"Not yet, but I'm afraid it's not very good."

This was the first time that Kaos felt fear and fear from the other person, Kaos could feel his mother's hand holding his arm, trembling slightly.

People in the 21st century can never imagine what the overseas Chinese looked like in the 20th century. If before the mainland was unified, overseas Chinese had a mentality of supporting the rise of the motherland and actively participated in anti-Japanese activities, donating money and materials, and even returned to China to fight against the war.

After the unification of the mainland, the Cold War began around the world, and overseas Chinese were in a high pressure, and they themselves didn't even know what choices they should make.

There are various natural disasters and man-made disasters in China, but various overseas suppression and massacres. The large-scale purge launched by Indonesia in 1965 alone caused 400,000 Chinese to die and more than 600,000 Chinese were arrested. The Chinese in this era were humble and timid.

The reason why Li Jiacheng's success and emergence in Hong Kong was called "Super Li" was that he launched an attack on the white world and also succeeded. This means that overseas Chinese have come back to the sunshine and the rise of Chinese forces.

After the reform and opening up in China, the living environment of Chinese people overseas has been constantly improving, making people feel more and more hopeful about their lives, but they did not expect Indonesia to pour a basin of cold water again.

This made Chinese people all over the world feel confused again and a little at a loss. Everyone is speculating that this is just an emergency or a signal that the whole world will return to the past.

Representatives from all walks of life in Chinatown have been discussing until night, but there is no overall result. After all, the energy of the people here is limited. If the sky is really in decline, they will not be able to resist at all.

In Kaos's opinion, such a discussion is meaningless. In the end, we have to wait for the speech of major Chinese groups in China and other places to have a choice.

And the fact is the same. When Kaos's grandfather came out, he just shook his head and asked Han Huixian to take Kaos home first.

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Late at night, Kaos sat in front of the computer and was confused. He just wanted to make money, but he completely ignored the Indonesian affairs in 1998. However, he was in China in his previous life and did not pay much attention to this matter.

After all, compared to the safe environment of Chinese inland, Kaos was just angry about it, but he didn't have much empathy. After reading the news, he forgot about it for a while.

But in such an environment, Kaos had a deeper feeling.

That night, Kaos sat in front of the computer, typing on the keyboard and doing bad things for the first time.

A website that only exists on the dark web was born under keyboard typing. The website's server is located in Europe, but the website is aimed at domestic rewards from Indonesia.

The website's URL is hidden in the advertisements of some small websites with viruses. As long as you are an IP user in Southeast Asia, you have a certain chance of jumping to this dark web address when you close the advertisement.

The website reward content is about the safety of members of the Suharto family.

At the same time, 50 million in the Kaos account disappeared into the Swiss bank through various accounts.
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