Joseph Tsai flies from Taipei to Hong Kong after Computex and a Chinese military show

Joseph Tsai flew from Taipei Songshan Airport to Hong Kong International Airport on June 15, a short 93-minute Gulfstream G700 hop that landed just after 11 a.m. local time. The trip comes two days after he attended the Computex conference in Taipei, which ran from June 2 to June 5, and where he likely connected with Alibaba partners and assessed the regional tech supply chain.

The flight lands in Hong Kong the same week Chinese military aircraft conducted 79 sorties near Taiwan during Computex, per a Reuters report on the incident. Chinese warplanes also held a “joint combat readiness patrol” around the island on June 3, underscoring the geopolitical tensions Tsai navigates as a Canadian-Taiwanese billionaire with deep ties to both China and the U.S. Tsai, who was born in Taipei and serves as Alibaba’s executive vice chairman, has publicly defended China’s National Security Law in Hong Kong, according to a 2021 CNBC transcript.

Tsai’s travel pattern shows he flew from Hong Kong to Taipei on June 13, returning to base after a European swing that included stops in Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, and New York earlier in the month. The round trip suggests a brief business visit to Taipei timed to Computex, followed by a return to his primary residence in Hong Kong.