Google's Chief Privacy Officer announces departure, position won't be filled

ByDwaipayan Roy

Jun 05, 2024

What's the story

Keith Enright, Google's Chief Privacy Officer, has announced his departure after a 13-year tenure.In a LinkedIn post, Enright confirmed his exit stating, "After over 13 years at Google, I'm ready for a change, and will be moving on this fall."His departure was reportedly met with surprise by Google employees.During his time at the firm, he led the global privacy team in developing and implementing privacy as well as data policies, across all of Google's products and services.

Policy restructuring

Approach to privacy policy post-Enright

Google will not seek a replacement for Enright. Instead, the company plans to restructure its approach to policy and privacy work, by involving multiple teams.A Google spokesperson stated that they, "regularly evolve our legal, regulatory, and compliance work as we launch and run innovative services that comply with a growing number of intersecting obligations and expectations."This comes as part of Google's broader effort to adapt its legal, regulatory, and compliance operations in response to increasing global regulations.

Bye's departure

Google's head of competition law also departs

Matthew Bye, Google's chief of competition law, is also leaving the firm after a 15-year tenure.Similar to Enright's position, Google will not seek a direct replacement for Bye.The departures of both Enright and Bye, come at a time when Google faces legal challenges from media groups over its advertising practices.

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Privacy controversies

Google's privacy practices under scrutiny

Google's commitment to user privacy has recently been under scrutiny.In December last year, the company settled a lawsuit alleging unauthorized data collection from Chrome users in incognito mode.As part of the settlement, Google decided to delete billions of user data records. Further controversy arose when an internal database was leaked, revealing thousands of privacy incidents between 2013 and 2018.A Google spokesperson denied any links between these leaks and Enright's and Bye's departure announcements.

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Microsoft close to resolving EU antitrust complaint through settlements

ByAkash Pandey

Jun 01, 2024

What's the story

Microsoft is reportedly nearing an agreement with the Amazon-backed cloud lobby, Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), to withdraw an antitrust complaint filed with the European Commission.This information was disclosed by Politico, citing industry insiders familiar with the proposal.The deal, still pending acceptance by CISPE members, could lead to the termination of an investigation into Microsoft's cloud-licensing agreements.

Settlement terms

Details of the proposed settlement

The proposed settlement could involve a possible multimillion-euro payment to CISPE, and possibly separate payments to individual companies.CISPE, which counts Amazon and 26 smaller EU cloud providers among its members, initially lodged its complaint in late 2022.The group alleged that Microsoft's new contractual terms, introduced on October 1, were adversely affecting Europe's cloud computing ecosystem.

Legal implications

Global legal complaints against Microsoft to cease

As part of the proposed settlement, CISPE and its member companies would agree not to file any legal complaints against Microsoft worldwide.This development was first reported by Reuters in February, stating that Microsoft was in talks with CISPE to end the European Union antitrust complaint about the software giant's cloud licensing practices.As of now, neither Microsoft, Amazon, CISPE nor the European Commission have answered to requests for comment outside regular business hours, says Reuters.

 

Russia labels Taliban’s control of Afghanistan as ‘crucial’

• By Amu TV
• JUNE 1, 2024

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Russia’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, emphasized the importance of the Taliban’s “firm grip on Afghanistan” for Moscow, during an interview with Rossiya-24 television channel.

Kabulov highlighted potential cooperation between Russia and Afghanistan in exporting oil products and ensuring the country’s food security.

“We believe that this government is holding consistent control over the country. This is fundamentally important for us,” Kabulov said. “Any disintegration of Afghanistan would have the most negative reverberations across the region.”

Kabulov underscored the significance of oil for Afghanistan’s economy. “Ensuring the basic essentials for the Afghan economy in the broadest sense. Of course, they are oil products, but it extends far beyond that,” he added.

The envoy also discussed enhanced cooperation in food security between the Taliban and Moscow. “Food security is a topic for the Afghan authorities to enhance cooperation and ensure the supplies of the most needed foodstuffs,” Kabulov noted.

Previously, Kabulov revealed that Russia’s ministries of foreign affairs and justice had proposed to President Vladimir Putin that the Taliban be removed from the list of terrorist organizations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov supported the initiative, stating that it “reflects awareness of reality.”

Despite positive relations between the Taliban and Moscow, no country has yet officially recognized the Taliban government.

 

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The 'Hadd' Punishment Against Apostasy from Islam

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi  •  updated Jun 1, 2024 
Cross-posted from Substack

Recently, Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, a prominent British Muslim convert to Islam, issued an 'apology' on Twitter/X in which he clarified: "I fully believe in, support and defend all Islamic laws, including hadd for ridda." As the historian and linguist Marijn van Putten notes, just remove the veil of the Arabic terminology and what Hamza is calling for is the application of the death penalty against apostates (i.e. people who have abandoned Islam). While Marijn decried Hamza's remarks and suggested he would report them, Professor Jonathan Brown of Georgetown University (himself a convert to Islam) offered soft apologia for Hamza's position, describing them as "totally unremarkable religious belief." For his part, Javad Hashmi of Harvard University, who co-hosted a Bible-Qur'an course with famous New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, critiqued Hamza's position as a "backwards, medieval view" and offered a substantive refutation of it, but he nonetheless suggested it was reflective of 'cancel culture' to report such views as problematic to social media or employers. That there are academics at prestigious Western universities offering these sorts of soft apologetics for Hamza's position is remarkable to me, but I guess the issue requires some explanation.

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Behind the Idlib Protests

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi  •  updated Jun 1, 2024 
Cross-posted from Substack

The Syrian government is not the only actor to be facing sustained protests against its rule. In the 'liberated' northwest of Syria- specifically the region of Idlib and its environs- there have been widespread demonstrations over the past three months or so against some of the policies of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, the dominant insurgent faction, led by Abu Muhammad al-Jowlani. Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham exercises authority not only through its military wing but also various bodies that are nominally independent but in fact backed and controlled by the group, such as the 'Salvation Government' and the 'Public Security Apparatus.' Ultimately, the status quo in the northwest- sustained since 2020 by a ceasefire arrangement brokered between Russia and Turkey- has given rise to a system that has many parallels with how Hamas governed Gaza prior to Israel's latest military campaign: one faction exerting hegemony and implementing an Islamist, authoritarian mode of governance.

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‘We are hated’: Israelis feel isolation over Gaza war

World ‘against Israel’  

NO, IT'S ISRAEL AGAINST THE WORLD



File photo of Israelis attending the funeral of Hanan Yablonka, one of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian Hamas militants, in Tel Aviv on May 26, 2024, as they also chant slogans demanding the release of the rest of the hostages. — AFP pic

Saturday, 01 Jun 2024 

JERUSALEM, June 1 — A series of diplomatic setbacks, strong condemnation of a recent Gaza strike, and intense protests on Western campuses have left Israelis feeling their country is unfairly isolated.

Israelis expected unwavering support from their allies and the international community after Hamas’s October 7 attack.

But as Israel’s retaliatory offensive against Hamas in Gaza deepened, it seems to have lost the sympathy it initially received after the unprecedented attack.

This loss of support intensified following last week’s Israeli strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, which killed at least 45 people, according to Gazan officials. The military has denied targeting the camp.

The strike drew condemnations from Istanbul to Beijing and from Washington to Paris.

On social media platform Instagram, more than 47 million posts with the hashtag “All eyes on Rafah” have been recorded since the strike.

But Israelis remain defiant despite the growing isolation.

“I don’t think Israel should care what the world has to say... I support our military 100 percent,” Netanel Aronson, a 24-year-old Israeli-American, told AFP.

“I pray for them every day that they should be safe and come home.”



File photo of members of a family walking past a logo designed to represent the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian Hamas militants on Israel, on Alrov Mamilla Avenue in Jerusalem on May 26, 2024. — AFP pic


‘Tragedy for everyone’

At least 36,379 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli bombardments and ground offensive since October 7, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run territory.

Israel’s retaliatory campaign came after the Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of 1,189 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

The militants also took 252 people as hostages, of which 121 are still held in Gaza, including 37 the military says are dead.

“It is a tragedy for everyone,” said Nathalie, who declined to give her last name, referring also to the fate of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“Since everybody is connected, we can see what’s happening. We feel that we are hated,” the 50-year-old said.

“We have the feeling that we are accused of being colonialists and imperialists. But we see ourselves as refugees,” she added, echoing the feeling of many Jews who arrived during the creation of Israel in 1948.

The Palestinians call the creation of Israel as the Nakba — or “catastrophe” — when about 760,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes by the war over Israel’s creation.

Last month, Israel faced a series of diplomatic setbacks.

While the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its ongoing offensive in Rafah, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, along with three senior Hamas leaders.

Ireland, Norway and Spain also recognised a Palestinian state in a coordinated decision on Tuesday, while Slovenia’s parliament is due to vote on such a proposal next week.


Protesters waves Palestinian flags during a demonstration to show support to Palestinians in central Paris on May 31, 2024. — AFP pic


World ‘against Israel’

Political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin said Israelis were aware the war was damaging their global standing.

“(Israelis) think the world is against Israel. They think that many institutions and countries are anti-Semitic, and that there is a double standard,” Scheindlin said.

She regretted the “devastating” impact of the war on Gazans, but said Israelis see the ongoing military campaign as an “existential struggle” for their people.

Scheindlin said Israelis have been demoralised over the setbacks at international tribunals after Israel was accused of committing some of the worst crimes in Gaza.

Such crimes “Israelis believed were only ever committed against them”, she added.

“So, it’s very hard for them to accept this. They fear the isolation.”

Israelis are also countering the social media campaign “All Eyes on Rafah,” with their own that says “If your eyes are on Rafah, then help us find the hostages”.

In a survey by US-based Pew Research Center before the May 26 strike on a camp of displaced people in Rafah, 40 percent of Israelis thought the country would “definitely” achieve its Gaza war goals.

Only four percent of the Jewish majority thought Israel’s military response in the Palestinian territory had gone “too far”.

But for Christians like Annie Dikbikian, the war has only increased “the hatred” on both sides.

“It’s affecting us... as Christians,” said the Jerusalem-based hairdresser, who hoped “peace, love, and respect” would return soon. 

— AFP

Israel's isolation: an overdue 'reckoning'?

Netanyahu faces moment of 'extreme crisis' following ICJ order to halt Rafah assault


Israel faces a 'diplomatic disaster' as it continues its Gaza offensive
(Image credit: Nick Gammon / AFP / Getty Images)

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The Gaza war is a "military quagmire and a human tragedy", said The Economist. It is also fast turning into a "diplomatic disaster for Israel", at a critical juncture in its history.

Last week, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor alleged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister had committed war crimes in Gaza: using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately attacking civilians. (Hamas's leaders were also accused of war crimes.) The move is bitterly contentious, and the ICC judges won't decide for weeks whether there's enough evidence to issue warrants.

There is certainly an arguable case that Netanyahu's government has "breached the laws of war" in Gaza by not providing food and medicine to civilians "to the fullest extent of the means available", as the Geneva Conventions demand. Either way, the PM's "disastrous" strategy in Gaza has brought "ignominy" to Israel. His departure is long overdue.

Israel's 'fire alarm'

The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Netanyahu's determination to press on with the offensive in Rafah – the southern city where more than a million civilians have sought sanctuary – make it ever harder for Israel's allies to back it, said the FT.

Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to immediately halt its assault in Rafah. Israeli forces pushed on, and on Sunday, 45 people, including many women and children, were killed in an air strike on an encampment housing displaced people in a supposedly safe zone.

Meanwhile, Ireland, Norway and Spain have all recognised Palestinian statehood – a "symbolic blow against an Israeli leader who rails against any talk of a two-state solution".

An "international reckoning" has long been coming, given Netanyahu's record of refusing to offer a credible peace plan to the Palestinians, said Jo-Ann Mort in The Guardian. Now a moment of "extreme crisis" has arrived. This is "a fire alarm for Israel". Will it take heed?

A weakening position

"The world is pitted against Israel in a way we haven't seen before," said The Jerusalem Post.

Much of the international pressure comes from "smug, sanctimonious" critics embracing a "ludicrous and disgusting double standard": why did the ICJ ask for Israel's Rafah operations to be halted, but not for Hamas to free Israeli hostages? Yet we must accept that our leaders' poor decisions and inflammatory rhetoric have paved the way for this growing isolation.

The current pursuit of "total victory", without defining any political goals that can slow the "escalating cycle of bloodshed", has not made us stronger, said Tehila Wenger in Haaretz. It has made us weaker – and is losing us friends.

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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom


Book Author(s):Maya Wind
Published Date:2024
Publisher:Verso Books
ISBN-13:9781804291740

by Ramona Wadi
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June 1, 2024 


“Israeli universities are not independent of the Israeli security state but, rather, serve as an extension of its violence.” Describing a raid by Shin Bet on Birzeit University in April 2022, Maya Wind sets the scene for her book Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso Books, 2024). Prior to Israel’s establishment, Zionism had already foreseen the role universities would play in shaping and maintaining the forthcoming settler colonial entity in Palestine.

Discussing the role of universities as strengthening settler outposts and later incorporating them into Israel’s state institutions, Wind describes early on how universities are not safe spaces for Palestinian students on several levels. From the courses offered, the approach towards military studies, the privilege of being Jewish, the links between universities and the paramilitary organisations linked to the Nakba, to Israel’s targeting of universities and students in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the freedom attributed by the West to Israeli universities is erroneous. And yet, despite Israel’s settler colonial existence, its military rule and its apartheid practices, Israeli universities have enjoyed collaboration with their US and European counterparts.

Columbia University, for example, lauds Israeli universities as democratic, while the Varieties of Democracy Institute lists Israel as: “Among the top 10 percent of countries in the world for academic freedom.” It is, however, as Wind points out, the narrative that Israel has disseminated for itself and stands in contrast to the Palestinian assertions, notably the Palestine Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which makes the link between Israeli academia and the oppression of Palestinians.

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In Zionist colonial ideology, universities provided both space and physical presence for settler colonialism and violence to thrive. The Hebrew University, for example, was established in 1918, lending strategic and symbolic importance to the Zionist colonial project to lay claims to Jerusalem. Together with Haifa and Rehovot Universities, the Hebrew University was directly involved in the Nakba. Wind quotes Daniel Reisner: “What we do today is a revision of international law, and if you do something long enough, then the world will accept it.”

From this statement, the author expands on how academia in Israel provides the necessary frameworks to legitimise colonial violence against the Palestinian people – international law, archaeology, legal and criminology studies are all subjects that have been manipulated to serve the Zionist colonial ideology and Israel’s colonial expansion. The book details how archaeology is used not only to claim ownership of the land through the Zionist narrative but also to prevent Palestinians from working on their agricultural land. Roof knocking – Israel’s alleged warning before bombing buildings – also emerged from international law departments in Israeli universities. Tel Aviv University, Wind explains, strategises Israel’s counterterror doctrine, giving the example of “third population”, which was coined to describe Palestinians classified as non-combatants who might “potentially interfere with Israeli military operations.”

Looting, demographic changes and the Judaisation of Palestine are also linked to Israeli academia. Wind writes about how Judaisation replaced colonisation in the Zionist narrative and rhetoric. Retaining a Jewish majority, which is also linked to the dispossession of Palestinians and the appropriation of land, was facilitated by universities working in collaboration with the World Zionist Organisation (WZO) and the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The Hebrew University, Wind adds, was built on land purchased by the WZO. The same university was also involved in the looting of Palestinian libraries and educational institutions after the Nakba, a task fortified by Israel’s national library when it erased all names from books to dissolve ownership claims and classified the literature as “abandoned property”. Ben Gurion University, Wind writes, was established in 1969 with the aim of appropriating land in the Negev and facilitating the Israeli army’s setting up of its military bases in the area. Ariel University, founded in 1982, was involved in the Judaisation and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

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Wind’s research makes clear that Israeli universities were structured around colonial purposes and highlights Israel’s reliance on academia: “Israel would not exist without the universities.” A case in point is the purpose they served even before the establishment of Israel in 1946. When Jewish universities were contributing towards the eventual colonisation, Haganah was operating from campuses for the purpose of developing biological weapons to use during the 1948 Nakba.

Surveillance is another weapon that Israeli universities employ against Palestinian students, which is tied to subjugation and repression – both facilitating dispossession. In Palestinian universities, Palestinians are also targeted. Wind discusses Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank as a hub of anti-colonial resistance politics and discusses how the Israeli military targets Palestinian university students to eliminate indigenous Palestinians and their legitimate anti-colonial struggle. Israel has, in the past, targeted universities – now academia in Gaza is annihilated. This is in addition to the fact that Palestinians from Gaza are forbidden from studying in occupied East Jerusalem or pursuing studies abroad. Wind cites that over 411 Palestinian groups and associations have been declared illegal by Israel, and students affiliated with any of these organisations are targets for Israel.

The book concludes with an overview of how universities were used by colonialism for land expropriation and colonial settlements. Wind adds: “Where they stand apart, however, is in their explicit and ongoing role in sustaining a regime now overwhelmingly recognised by the international community as apartheid.” Ending Israeli academia’s complicity in colonialism – decolonising the universities – would be a step forward, in Wind’s view. And yet, as the genocide in Gaza rages on, academic freedom remains distant as academia remains embroiled in complacency and complicity.

Irish MP: ‘I hope Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell’

June 1, 2024

Irish Member of Parliament, Thomas Gould, became emotional over the death of children in Gaza following Israel’s attacks on Rafah last weekend. ‘I hope [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell in the same way those children burned,’ he told parliament.

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Zionist MP calls for arresting US president

News code : ۱۴۸۸۶۳۰Tally Gotliv, a member of the Israeli regime’s Knesset, filed a complaint with the police of this regime, demanding the arrest of President of the United States Joe Biden.

According to the Palestinian Sama news agency, Gotliv cited Biden's crime as violating security protocols and disclosing details of the Zionist regime's plan to put an end to the war on the Gaza Strip and the prisoner swap.

This representative of the Likud party in the Knesset of the Zionist regime has urged the Israeli police to arrest Biden upon the president’s arrival in the occupied territories.

Speaking at the White House on Friday, the US president unveiled the Israeli regime’s proposal to end the Gaza conflict, saying that it's time for this war to end, and the proposal is expected to lead to a lasting ceasefire in the Strip.

 

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Indonesia ready to send peacekeeping, medical forces to support ceasefire in Gaza: Prabowo

Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto said his country is discussing with the relevant parties to speed up the deployment of medical personnel to hospitals in Gaza. 

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JUN 01, 2024,

SINGAPORE – Indonesia is prepared to send peacekeeping troops and medical forces to support a prospective ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas have been warring, said Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto on June 1.

“We are prepared to contribute significant peacekeeping forces to maintain and monitor this prospective ceasefire as well as provide protection and security to all parties and to all sides,” said Mr Prabowo, who in October will become Indonesia’s eighth president.

Mr Prabowo, along with his vice-president running mate, Mr Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who is the son of incumbent president Joko Widodo, won the Feb 14 election with almost 60 per cent of the votes.

Speaking on the second day of the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue, the annual regional security forum held in Singapore, Mr Prabowo said Indonesia is also discussing with the relevant parties to speed up the deployment of medical personnel to hospitals in Gaza.

“Indonesia also is very willing to evacuate and treat wounded Palestinians,” he said, adding that Jakarta is ready to receive and treat up to 1,000 patients in the immediate future.

Refering to United States President Joe Biden’s May 31 announcement of a three-phase Israeli proposal for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Mr Prabowo said the details have to be studied further, but it is “an important step forward”. He also said that the only real solution for peace in the Israel-Palestinian conflict is a two-state solution.

Since becoming president-elect, Mr Prabowo, a retired army general, has been active in global engagements, meeting international leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in the months leading up to his October inauguration.

The high-level defence pow-wow in Singapore, attended by global security and defence leaders, including those from Washington and Beijing, is being held amid rising tensions in the South China Sea and growing US-China rivalry.

Mr Prabowo, who has been defence minister since 2019, has not shied away from commenting on geopolitical issues such as the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. At the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2023, he pitched a controversial peace plan to end the conflict that began in 2022.

And during his special address on June 1, Mr Prabowo reaffirmed his proposal as one that is “logical, relevant and necessary”.

“It is necessary as an intermediate solution to this difficult, dangerous and, one might even say, potentially disastrous situation in Ukraine,” he said, referring to the plan that called for Ukraine and Russia to withdraw 15km from each party’s forward positions to form a new demilitarised zone, and called for a United Nations referendum on what he termed “disputed” territory.

That plan drew praise from China but criticism from Western nations.

During the session, Mr Prabowo reiterated what he termed the “Asian” way of handling conflict through maintaining good relationships among regional countries, especially amid increased geopolitical tensions and a widening trust deficit between states.

“I’ve been convinced... that real security comes through very good relations between our immediate neighbours,” he said.

Indonesia, the largest economy in South-east Asia and the fourth-most populous nation in the world, must be “close” and “friendly” with its immediate neighbours through engagement, respect and negotiation to solve issues, said Mr Prabowo.

“We have had military conflict with our neighbours... Malaysia and Singapore. But now we are the best of friends.

“We have resolved our differences without interference from any external power.”

In March 2024, Singapore and Indonesia signed landmark agreements that ended years of, at times, heated public wrangling over sensitive issues involving defence, airspace boundaries management and extradition matters.

While he was in Singapore, Mr Prabowo also met Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.

Both leaders reaffirmed their nations’ close bilateral and people-to-people relations, and took note of the progress made in areas of cooperation such as renewable energy and sustainability.

Mr Prabowo also met Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishan, as well as US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin during this trip.