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3/ Airwallex is subject to Chinese laws that *require employees to support CCP intelligence requests* and hand over data when asked. As CEO, you list your place of residence as Hong Kong (with a correspondence address of London) in legal filings (eg, https://t.co/XWsQwpbDXq), your co-founders (CTO and COO) are based in Hong Kong and Mainland China per X data, and your Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer lives in Hong Kong too – placing your key execs under the Hong Kong National Security Law, which penalizes refusing government requests for data. Under the PRC National Intelligence Law, every China-based Airwallex engineer is legally obligated to provide access or credentials to authorities and keep it secret. Even if the servers sit in the U.S, your administrators are in Shanghai. These employees can even be ordered to insert backdoors and are barred from disclosing any of it.