Even without direct foreign intervention, officials begin to worry about the security of their assets and ability to travel abroad.
Yet Japanese investment rose by nearly 20% last year despite the demonstrations, suggesting continuing confidence among Japanese businessmen in the security of their assets in China.
"For this administration to run on a security platform and allow people in the administration to compromise the security of intelligence assets, I think is unconscionable," Mr. Johnson said.
Its stock dropped 45% since the start of the week amid concerns about the security of its assets, many of which are linked to the financial turmoil on Wall Street.
It is mystifying that mention of a directive involving the free access and security of space assets is transformed into a ruthless drive for space weaponization ("Weapons in Space," editorial, May 24).
The annual Forbes list found that the global number of billionaires last year fell to 793 from 1,125, and a report by Spectrem Group, a research company, saw a drop in the number of American millionaires from 9.2m to 6.7m between 2007 and 2008.A few businessmen who borrowed money against the security of their assets have seen their fortunes almost disappear.
"We have lent a massive amount of capital to the United States, and of course we are concerned about the security of our assets.
In addition, the SFDRR emphasize on integrating DRR into financial and fiscal instruments and stresses the increase of business resilience, protection of vulnerable livelihoods, and security of productive assets throughout global supply chains.
To that end, along with the security of its assets, Coinfloor's big pitch is that it's intending to be "fully compliant" (though technically, like other exchanges, it's unregulated for now) and is employing full electronic Know Your Customer (KYC and Anti Moneyy Laundering (AML) procedures to ensure the integrity of its users and traders, "far above and beyond what is required" by regulators.
