In an opinion piece titled "New York doesn't need Amazon's sweetheart deal" published Thursday by The New York Times, Bryce Covert said that huge incentive packages are a burden for taxpayers, and she encouraged other cities to follow New York's lead.
These kinds of economic incentive deals are typically struck "with little public oversight," Covert said, noting that such tax incentive deals might not have the intended impact.
There were even whisper campaigns that development is merely the ostensible goal of the initiative; the perceived truth was that it is China's covert attempt to emerge as a 21st-century hegemon.
"After we clean up online shops selling counterfeits, the counterfeiters usually change their identities and places of dispatch, using more covert means to continue selling online," Qin said.
The BOC said in a statement on Tuesday that it has recently helped Eldorado Brasil, a Brazilian paper pulp company, process the renminbi-based letter of credit discounting, which is a short-term credit facility provided by banks, and immediately covert it into Brazilian reais that are deposited in the company’s account.
Manjang said that the use of the Chinese currency minimizes currency risk of traders by eliminating the need to covert the Kenya shilling to US dollars and then to yuan.
The Ministry of State Security has called for heightened vigilance against persistent and covert risks to data security, as well as the strengthening of the protection of crucial information infrastructure and early detection of data security risks.
It highlighted that more persistent and covert data security risks have brought great challenges to data security.
"Espionage also involves more extensive fields, more diversified targets and more covert methods.