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In these circumstances, postponing the restructuring only perpetuates distrust of European banks with opaque sovereign exposures, and of financial markets in general – in much the same way that uncertainty about exposure to collateralized debt obligations led to a confidence crisis in late 2008.
Democratizing BrexitATHENS – As deadlines approach and red lines are redrawn in the United Kingdom’s impending withdrawal from the European Union, it is imperative for the people of Britain to regain democratic control over a process that is opaque and ludicrously irrational.
He was opaque and playfully cryptic, already a little paranoid – perhaps justifiably so.
Will it make governments more opaque rather than more transparent?
The Section 301 report’s accusations regarding outbound investment – namely, that China uses “government capital and highly opaque investor networks to facilitate high-tech acquisitions abroad” – are similarly flimsy.
If the solutions to disinformation are unclear in the US, the situation is even thornier in the international context, where the problem is even more decentralized and opaque – another reason why no overarching, comprehensive solution is possible.
The South Korean and US intelligence services’ inability to pick up any sign of what had happened attests to the North Korean regime’s opaque character, but also to their own deficiencies.
This process is often opaque and leaves much to be desired.
Strengthening the rule of law and ensuring compliance with formal rules will require more transparency and the elimination of opaque extra-market factors in private-sector competition.
By keeping bidding on BRI projects closed and opaque, China often massively inflates their value, leaving countries struggling to repay their debts.
The internal power games of the Communist Party of China (CPC) are notoriously opaque, and rarely does political infighting reach the level at which it cannot be covered up.
In order to align political and economic reform, the Party tried to replace the opaque appointment process for selecting high-ranking cadres with contested internal ballots.
Those who had argued for the free market’s virtue of “transparency” ended up creating financial systems so opaque that banks could not make sense of their own balance sheets.
But, for developing countries today, there is an additional complication: global finance is increasingly governed not by the Washington Consensus, which encourages transparency and adherence to rules that apply to all, but rather by an opaque and biased “Beijing Consensus.”
Instead, they preferred an opaque power-sharing system in which no identifiable person would bear ultimate responsibility for decisions.
Pandering to authoritarian regimes and opaque business interests is not a wholesome enterprise.
However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.
Current corporate structures are opaque, with the risks hidden around the world – and various shell games allowing companies to claim the same equity in more than one country.
In terms of security and defense policy, the Trudeau administration’s positions are more opaque.
Cabinet members have chafed at their proposals being subjected to lengthy review by White House committees, whose reports are often opaque.
The status quo – opaque rules, arbitrary decision-making, and lack of accountability – allows insiders to enrich themselves, especially by obtaining a share of commodity-export revenues.”
Moreover, corruption scandals have erupted far beyond South Africa, including in Brazil and South Korea, yet the links between business and government across the world remain complex, close, and opaque.
Such Westerners are now often just as enamored of China’s paternalistic – and equally opaque and impenetrable – political system.
In the US, tens of billions of dollars move through law firms’ opaque bank accounts each year, facilitating money laundering.
Once such assets are parked in opaque companies, they are often beyond the reach of tax authorities and investigators.
And the opaque Ecuadorian methods are not possible in Europe, both for legal reasons and because a transaction of this size could hardly be disguised or outsourced.
There was nothing opaque, however, in the sudden purge and swift execution earlier this month of Jang Song-thaek – or Uncle Jang as the media have taken to calling Kim’s not-so-avuncular one-time regent.
True, Russians are prone to conspiracy theories, which is common in countries with an opaque power structure.
But if they grow too large while their activities remain opaque, widespread “financial protectionism” will become all but inevitable.
As a result, firms must dedicate considerable time and effort to dealing with North Korea’s often volatile and opaque politics, exemplified in the recent execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s powerful uncle, Jang Song-thaek.
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