A top security consultant is repeating warnings that Macau casinos could face a terrorist attack, despite being criticized for issuing similar warnings in the past.

This week saw the release of Steve Vickers & Associates’ annual Asia Risk Assessment report, which offers insights into the major challenges facing Asian countries and the likely outcomes. Vickers is the former head of the Hong Kong police criminal intelligence bureau and thus no stranger to Macau’s casino market.

The 2018 report repeats Vickers’ view that Macau’s casinos “remain vulnerable to terrorist attack despite recent efforts to improve readiness.” In 2016, Vickers ruffled feathers when he cited Macau’s massive integrated resorts as prime locations for a “spectacular attack on a soft target.”

Vickers justified this claim due to the “nexus of Chinese, American and Jewish interests” in Macau’s gaming industry, embodied by Jewish-American casino magnates Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Sands) and Steve Wynn (Wynn Resorts).