Asian Godfathers

Chinese’​​​​​​ interests controlled 45 per cent of major firms in the Philippines, all but two of the twenty largest corporations in Indonesia, nine of the ten biggest businesses in Thailand, and twenty-four of the top sixty companies in Malaysia.11 Most of Asia’​​​​​​s godfathers are ethnic Chinese.

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