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Clayton Swope, Deputy Director of Aerospace Security Project, Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

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Ooi Kok Hin, Executive Director, Bersih

Dr Ang U-Jin, Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

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