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Boon to money-launderers or privacy issue?
Apr 9
By: Tim Hamlett
It would be nice to think the Hong Kong government had stumbled into its recently-announced decision to protect the identities of businesspeople in the Companies Registry out of a well-intentioned effort to protect them from doxing, the practice of exposing identities without permission.
But there is an old saying in military circles: if something bad happens once it is a misfortune; twice is a coincidence; three times is enemy action. The attempt to curb access to the Companies Registry comes soon after the prosecution of an investigative journalist for using information about vehicle registration supplied to the public by the Transport Department to identify the masked perpetrators of attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2019. That was followed by the news that court sheets are to be purged of the identifying details of defendants and other participants, including the prosecutor. This will be
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With its own security increasingly at stake in ‘China’s Lake,” Jakarta aligns with Tokyo
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The announcement was thin, to put it mildly. After two days of talks involving both sides defense and foreign ministers, Japan and Indonesia agreed to cooperate in defense procurement. There were no specifics and the ministers spent more words condemning events in Myanmar than on their own relationship.
There was no indication of the type of weapons Japan might supply, or how it would help the development of Indonesia’s own armaments industry.
But the fact that the meeting happened, and its timing, were significant and clearly intended to send a message to China. From the Japanese side, ever-threatened by Chinese claims to the Senkaku Islands, known to the Chinese as the Diaoyus, and the region’s seas, it was nothing new. After all, Japan has recently lined up as a member of the so-called Quad, comprising the US, India, and Australia to challenge China’s aggr
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Growing militant activity from activists who find nothing in it for them
Mar 16
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative, which in far too many areas of Africa and Asia is built with Chinese labor, using Chinese inputs and benefiting largely the Chinese while unloading massive debt on the recipient countries, has created a textbook example in Pakistan. It is also triggering a new wave of sporadic militant activity in the poverty-stricken Balochistan province, whose inhabitants are growing increasingly antagonistic over the fact they aren’t in line for any of the prosperity their land is being carved up for.
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