Company: ATMCW
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004801
Chunk: 1764

Company: ALPHATIME ACQUISITION CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 1764
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 may affect national security, it should be subject to cybersecurity review by the Cyberspace
Administration of China (“CAC”). Due to the lack of further interpretations, the exact scope of “critical information
infrastructure operator” remains unclear.

Recently,
the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued
the Opinions on Severe and Lawful Crackdown on Illegal Securities Activities, which was available to the public on July 6, 2021. These
opinions emphasized the need to strengthen the administration over illegal securities activities and the supervision on overseas listings
by China-based companies. These opinions proposed to take effective measures, such as promoting the construction of relevant regulatory
systems, to deal with the risks and incidents facing China-based overseas-listed companies and the demand for cybersecurity and data
privacy protection. Moreover, the State Internet Information Office issued the Measures of Cybersecurity Review (Revised Draft for Comments,
not yet effective) on July 10, 2021, which requires operators with personal information of more than 1 million users who want to list
abroad to file a cybersecurity review with the CAC. As these opinions and the draft measurers were recently issued, official guidance
and interpretation of these two remain unclear in several respects at this time.

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If,
for example, our potential initial business combination is with a target business operating in the PRC and if the enacted version of
the draft measures mandates clearance of cybersecurity review and other specific actions to be completed by the target business, we may
face uncertainties as to whether such clearance can be timely obtained, or at all, and incur additional time delays to complete any such
acquisition. Cybersecurity review could also result in negative publicity with respect to our initial business combination and diversion
of our managerial and financial resources. There is no guarantee that we can receive such approval in a timely manner, and we may also
be prevented from pursuing certain investment opportunities if the PRC government considers that the potential investments will result
in a significant national security issue. If obtained, since our Business Combination period is 24 months from the closing of our Initial
Public Offering, or if we decide to extend the period of time to consummate our Business Combination, 33 months from the closing of our
Initial Public Offering (as further described in this Form 10-K), and the approval process may take a period longer than we expect before
we enter into a definitive agreement with a target company, we may be