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A |     中新社首尔8月20日电 中共中央政治局委员、中央外办主任王毅20日在首尔与韩国国家安保室长魏圣洛举行战略对话。         　　王毅表示，去年以来，李在明总统和习近平主席实现互访，引领中韩关系进入改善发展的新阶段。中国对韩政策保持一贯性稳定性，始终将韩国置于周边外交重要位置。中国是韩最大邻国，是国际上重要的和平力量，从不发起或参与战争，始终为推动和平解决国际和地区争端发挥建设性作用。    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.。中方赞赏李在明政府推动中韩关系重回战略合作伙伴关系轨道，双方应加强沟通，增进互信，减少不必要猜忌，在政治、经贸、安全等各领域开展战略合作，不仅造福两国人民，也为地区和平安全作出贡献。希望韩方实现真正战略自主，不搞阵营对抗，不搞选边站队，并行不悖发展同中国、美国等大国关系。

B |          　　魏圣洛表示，韩中是近邻，两国关系源远流长。去年以来韩中元首成功互访，进一步巩固两国关系全面恢复势头。韩方愿同中方一道，落实两国元首共识，打造实实在在成果，增进各自人民福祉，推动韩中战略合作伙伴关系迈上新台阶。韩方致力于并行发展对外关系，愿同中方密切高层战略对话，为维护地区和平稳定凝聚力量。         　　双方就地区安全问题深入交换意见。王毅阐述中方在地区及半岛问题上的原则立场，指出应警惕日本右翼势力开历史倒车的言行，绝不允许日本军国主义死灰复燃。解决半岛紧张局势的根本途径在于消除问题产生的根源，推动美国放弃对朝敌视政策。希望各方多做有利于重启对话、恢复互信的事情，乐见半岛走向韩朝两国和平共处，最终实现半岛停和机制转换和长治久安。(完) 【编辑:万纪玮】。

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