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It's balls, not bandwidth that are the concern.

Iceland and Switzerland are possibilities. As is panama.

Right now, the US has managed to violate he privacy laws of almost every country- famously Switzerland bank secrecy is no more.

But the decade of bullying other countries in the name of "terrorism" is not making a lot of friends, and as the power structures in the world shift, eventually someone will get the balls to stand up to the USA.

Panama might be that country, because China is heavily invested in the expansion of the panama canal. The canal is a massive proportion of the countries economy, and much of the economy that isn't the canal is indirectly boosted by the canal.

With China as a strategic partner, they may be willing to stand up to the USA. Not now, not yet, but in 5 to 10 years.

Europe and the US are both in the middle of massive financial crosses, which will likely result in the destruction of both currencies, and a significant amount of damage to asia as well... but as a result, confiscatory tax policies will go into effect and capital flight from these regions will accelerate. The diminished demand will hurt asia and south america, but increasingly businesses will relocate to those regions.



New Zealand will be an interesting possibility. The ongoing systematic destruction of the case against Kim.com is creating some interesting precedent.


I seriously doubt that China will stand up as defender of privacy, seeing the track record with their own country. It is inimical to the interests of any large state actor to allow actual, real privacy since that could harbor elements trying overthrow that very same state.




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