"Thank you for coming. We welcome your investment, and your people will receive the finest treatment in this world. Of course, as for security, we'll need you to be a little more understanding."
In the New Country Parliament, the speaker finished his remarks, and the entire hall applauded.
On the conference table beside them lay the contract that had just been signed.
The "Eastern Kingdom and Kingdom of Dawn Comprehensive Progressive Cooperation Agreement" included a series of provisions on "tourism," "investment," "national treatment," and more.
The core of it was probably the so-called tourism opening provisions—or rather, a comprador contract under that name.
"If the borders are opened without limits, anyone who enters gets citizenship, currency exchange is unrestricted, and investment is fully liberalized... They're clearly giving up most of their sovereignty and doing nothing at all. How can that possibly count as 'tourism'?"
Lu PingAn had truly had his eyes opened. Those professional Civil Affairs Officers really knew their stuff.
When a sensitive yet important matter had to be passed through legislation but needed to stay as low-profile as possible, how should it be handled?
"Give it another title, use a hot topic to daze everyone, then slip the important and sensitive contents through as additional articles and supplementary clauses."
Most people only read the summaries when they looked at news or legislation. At most, they might read the main text. In this era, the full text could not be posted online; one had to apply to the relevant department to view it.
Unless one had the means and leisure to request the original from Parliament directly, there was no way to see those supplementary clauses. And even if the news broke, most major media outlets in this world were controlled by East Country People.
East Country People had