Indo Defense Canceled Due to Corruption?
Indonesia's Biggest Tri-Service Defense Show Suddenly Shutters
China In Arms BOOKSTORE and GIFT SHOP!
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7 October 2024 (Monday)
Indo Defense Canceled Due to Corruption?
Indonesia's Biggest Tri-Service Defense Show Suddenly Shutters
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - Certainly not the biggest or even an interesting defense expo in Asia, Indo Defense has been a regular expo every two years without fail.
The sudden cancelation this year, begs some questions unanswered.
My best guess is that the transition of political power is a problem for those who propositioned/prepositioned themselves for bribes and kickbacks before the February election and the subsequent scandal and protests upset the apple cart.
This happens a lot in Taiwan.
The nuclear power plants that were planned and built while the KMT Party was in power were canceled by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) later because money was already licensed to KMT power brokers via contracts.
It is never about dumb luck in Asia. It is about who is on first base first. So the new guys in power are canceling contracts to punish the old guys who lost power.
Strangling their access to cash and putting them in debt to those who already paid them via a bribe/kickback.
These are the kind of things you will never read about in the New York Times. It is beyond their cognitive frame of how the world works.
The China Airshow in Zhuhai this year is never a problem because there is only ONE party in power.
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