#national-security

#national-security

"Government intervention in the economy in the name of national security is most clearly warranted in cases of market failure," a new report from a bipartisan task force organized by the Council on Foreign Relations says. "Today, the market failures that loom largest for U.S. national security are shortfalls of private capital in strategically important areas and over-concentration of critical supply chains in unfriendly countries," the report adds.

Australia passed legislation in 2023 to mothball the planned embassy building after officials deemed it to pose a security threat. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at the time that his government decided to revoke the lease over the specific risk posed by the site, located about 300 metres (328 yards) from Parliament House. Russia, which blasted the move as Russophobic hysteria, challenged the legislation in court, arguing that it was not valid under the Australian Constitution.

I do not think we truly appreciate how disruptive, how devastating, this could be "That's one phone network not working for less than one day," he said. "Imagine the implications if a nation state took down all the networks? Or turned off the power during a heatwave? Or polluted our drinking water? Or crippled our financial system?"

US President Donald Trump has indicated that Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips will be available exclusively to US companies. China and other countries will be excluded from access to this technology. During a recorded interview on CBS's 60 Minutes program and in conversations with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump emphasized that only US customers will be allowed to use Nvidia's latest Blackwell chips. According to him, these powerful semiconductors must remain in US hands to protect the country's technological lead.

According to the presidential spokesperson, Tinubu fired three top security officials on Friday Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff; Emmanuel Ogalla, chief of naval staff, and Hassan Abubakar, chief of air staff. Tinubu appointed Olufemi Oluyede, the former chief of army staff, as the new chief of defence staff. Shaibu, I Abbas and SK Aneke were appointed as the chiefs of army, air force, and naval staff.

These federal employees play a critical oversight role in ensuring that the work required to maintain nuclear security is carried out in accordance with long-standing policy and the law

There are few things that MPs take more seriously than themselves. Their desire to put themselves front and centre of world events. Their need to imagine that everything they do makes a difference. No greater self-love hath any person than this. If they were to have a therapist, I am sure they would be having a field day. The triumph of ego over ever-diminishing quantities of self-worth.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Dom! At a time of heightened worries about national security, who better than Dominic Cummings to shine a light on the murky world of spying? The man who turned a drive to Barnard Castle into an advert for SpecSavers. The man who gave us Brexit. Which one of us didn't vote for a 4% hit to GDP? The man who gave us Boris Johnson.

The indictment charges Bolton with eighteen federal crimes: eight related to transmitting sensitive national defense information and ten more for improperly retaining the same. The information at issue contained deadly serious government secrets. Bolton allegedly disclosed to outsiders information about "future attack" plans by foreign adversary groups; details of impending missile launches by foreign adversaries; information about sensitive intelligence sources; and assessments about leaders of foreign countries.

This was their moment to take centre stage. When they could bathe in their own importance. When they could believe that they and national security were one and the same thing. There again, whatever Starmer had put into the public domain would never have been enough. Even a letter from the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Stephen Parkinson, falling on his sword and admitting he had taken his eye off the ball, would have been dismissed as irrelevant.

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would show streets, buildings, and alleyways in far greater detail than currently available on these platforms. However, several regulatory and security hurdles remain unresolved. Earlier this week, South Korea's National Assembly Defense Committee held a parliamentary audit of Google Korea.

Well, you're in one now, Trump responded. He continued: Look, we have 100% tariff if we didn't have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing. We would have no defense. You know they've used tariffs on us. But we've never had anybody sitting in [the president's] chair who felt the need to do it. President Trump added that tariffs are very important for national security.

The new extension will take Denmark's border controls into a second decade, given they were first introduced at the beginning of 2016. The current extension remains necessary due to the risk from cross border crime, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said in the statement. Denmark remains in a serious security situation. This tells me that the most responsible thing to do is still to consider who we allow to cross our borders, so that we can protect the Danish people, Hummelgaard said.

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The government's national security adviser Jonathan Powell made no decisions about the content of any evidence provided in the collapsed case against two men accused of spying for China, a minister has said. Prosecutors unexpectedly dropped charges against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry - who deny the allegations - in September. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed the case collapsed because the government had refused to give the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) "vital information" as it wanted to "curry favour" with China.

A key security adviser had no role in the "substance or the evidence" of the collapsed case against two men accused of spying for China, the education secretary has said. The Conservatives have suggested Jonathan Powell, the prime minister's national security adviser, had a role in not giving prosecutors evidence they said they needed to secure convictions. Charges against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry who both deny the allegations were dropped last month, prompting criticism from ministers and MPs.

"China has fired a loaded gun at the American economy, seeking to cut off critical minerals used to make the semiconductors that power the American military, economy, and devices we use every day including cars, phones, computers, and TVs," Moolenaar said. "Every American will be negatively affected by China's action, and that's why we must address America's vulnerabilities and build our own leverage against China."