Security

• [New] Cyber-espionage, cyber-sabotage, cyber-foreign-influence, and cyber-terrorism pose significant threats to Canada's national security, its interests, as well as its economic stability.
• [New] Espionage and foreign-influenced activities are directed at Canadian entities both inside and outside of Canada, and directly threaten Canada's national security and strategic interests.
• [New] Japan considers China's growing activity to be a security threat and opposes Beijing's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea and its increased activity in the disputed area.
• [New] The goal of the USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment activity is to strengthen regional capacity to manage shared water resources and mitigate environmental risks in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins.
• [New] The UK pledges to its NATO allies a more robust defense posture vis-a-vis Russia; it reaffirms its support for Eastern European countries; and it plans to continue military assistance to Ukraine.
• [New] Australian agriculture and food security are exposed to increasing risk from droughts, extreme high temperatures, coastal inundation, floods, invasive species and fires.
• [New] Australian agriculture and food security are already exposed to increased risk from drought, heatwaves, fires, floods and invasive species.
• [New] Both China and Russia stress partnership rather than an alliance, but both do face real security threats from the US-led West.
• [New] An arms race, even over an ineffective weapon, increases international tensions and could make conflict among China, Russia, and the United States more likely.
• [New] Boris Johnson's plans for Covid-19 passports could be discriminatory and give people a false sense of security.
• [New] Tens of thousands of Rohingya, who are largely denied citizenship in their home country Myanmar, have lived in India for years but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government regards them as a security threat and has been detaining them.
• [New] A Krungsri Securities analyst expected the day's index to rise to between 1,600 and 1,610 on the back of the US' $ 2.25-trillion infrastructure plan, the rising oil price after Opec + agreed to increase oil production gradually, and falling US bond yield.
• [New] AI is a strategic technology that will lead in the future; the world's major developed countries are taking the development of AI as a major strategy to enhance national competitiveness and protect national security.
• [New] National Cyber Security Strategy, in which the U.S. threatened to punish countries including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea if they used cyber tools to undermine its economy and democracy, and steal its intellectual property.
• [New] The Russian Federation had amassed 28 battalion tactical groups along the state border of Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied territories and, under the guise of preparing for exercises, intends to deploy up to 25 battalion tactical groups, which poses a threat to Ukraine's military security.
• [New] The proliferation of cruise missiles clearly threatens the national security interests of the United States and its allies in several ways.
• [New] The proliferation of cruise missiles has far-reaching strategic implications on U.S. national security in three particular areas: becoming available to non-state actors, preventing crisis stability, and increasing nuclear risks.
• [New] Donald Trump's foreign policy has engendered in Iran's threat perception a shift unfavorable to engagement with the West on instruments on national security.
• [New] The resources from Embassy of Ireland funding will allow applicants to build dairy production systems aimed at transforming the livestock sector and help build progress towards Sustainable Development Goals targets on poverty, hunger/food security, climate change.
• [New] Climate change can be the happy medium: an increasingly urgent shared threat with both economic and security dimensions, and one that neither country - nor the world - can afford to ignore.
• New Zealand will need to broaden and deepen security cooperation with key partners and continue defending the rules-based order through contributions to global peace, security and disarmament initiatives.

Last updated: 06 April 2021