Perversely, it will lead to greater secrecy.

The Chinese leadership s penchant for secretiveness is proverbial.

Of course, politicians prefer to work in secrecy, without oversight.

One reason for the secrecy was a lesson learned by the city.

A month later, in equal secrecy, Hitler sold Lithuania to Stalin.

Obedience makes the inaccessibility of power and the elite s cult of secrecy possible.

There is only one way to prevent this open discussion of economic policies in order to expose fallacies and provide scope for creative solutions to the many challenges facing China today.

George W. Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision making to a narrow circle of sycophants.

Of concern was the manner President Sata was carted around to South Africa, India, United Kingdom and Israel in a secretive and hushed manner.

Although the ENIAC was similar to the Colossus it was much faster and more flexible.

Usually, decision making is confined to ever smaller circles, with ever greater secrecy.

The whole Stalinist system of government was built on absolute secrecy, in which only the General Secretary himself knew the whole story.

He, and the people he appointed, created an environment of secrecy, a system in which the normal checks on the accuracy of information were removed.

France has a privacy law that explicitly defines both the scope of privacy and the circumstances in which the law applies. By contrast, in Britain it is left to judges to decide what the right to privacy means.

France has a privacy law that explicitly defines both the scope of privacy and the circumstances in which the law applies.

At the same time, UBS lost something that had always been its advantage when competing for rich clients the fog of secrecy.

The BTRC instead has suggested that parental controls and privacy and security features would be a better method to achieve this objective.

But America has also grown up in another way, learning to choose transparency over secrecy, and to rely on the power of its citizens.

There is no doubt that Iran with its long history of secrecy and dissimulation deserves the intense hostility and distrust that its nuclear program continues to engender. But the most common view of security and intelligence experts worldwide is that, while Iran may want the technical breakout capability to build a nuclear weapon that Japan now has, it is still a long way from building a usable atomic weapon, and has made no decision to do so.

There is no doubt that Iran with its long history of secrecy and dissimulation deserves the intense hostility and distrust that its nuclear program continues to engender.

As Yaslem Saeed bin Ishaq, whose son was killed in a US drone strike in Wadi Sir on August 1, 2013, observed, They just kill.

It is about official arrogance and indifference to suffering, and a cult of secrecy that allows information to be shared only among a narrow elite obsessed with stability.

Lastly, the culture of secrecy and non accountability that permeates soccer s major governing bodies such as FIFA, UEFA and the various country federations needs to be changed.

Steven Aftergood, head of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, counts Wikileaks among the enemies of an open society because of its failure to respect the rule of law and the rights of individuals.

Likewise, the Bush administration opposed the OECD initiative to restrict bank secrecy until it realized that secret bank accounts help finance terrorists.

Short of the US national security archives suddenly falling open, we are unlikely to find a definitive account of the President's innermost thoughts.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's right wing nationalist prime minister, does not need much encouragement to tighten up secrecy laws, give more powers to the police, or make it easier to use military force.

But implausible lies are more important in the murky environments of many authoritarian regimes, where secrecy and fear make it difficult for rulers to know if their subordinates are truly loyal.

American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national security concerns.

Assange fears he will be extradited from Sweden to the United States to face possible espionage charges, after releasing more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks anti secrecy website.

Incredibly, those of us involved in the process (I was then Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs) managed to keep our intense negotiations completely secret.

Most believe that oil ranks at the top of America's list of motives.