Security

• [New] As space activity increases, Earth-based activities enabled by space will multiply over time, and space-based activities will have greater potential impact on security on Earth itself.
• [New] Multipolarity in space presents a range of challenges and opportunities for the United States to achieve security and prosperity in space.
• [New] The legal, security, and physical architectures that the United States develops over the coming decades must explore opportunities for the commercial sector to plug in, or even take over, elements.
• [New] There are questions in Israel about U.S. intentions in shifting military priorities away from the Middle East in order to focus more intensively on China and Russia as more significant threats to U.S. security.
• [New] The regional security and economic consequences of the situation in Myanmar are getting worse and could deteriorate further.
• [New] Terrorists based in Somalia pose a security threat to the United States, while piracy off the Somali coast affects U.S. economic interests and has led to the murders of U.S. citizens.
• [New] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned capital market operators to stop giving support to online investment trading platforms providing access to foreign securities in Nigeria.
• [New] Five Chinese telecommunications companies, including Huawei, pose a risk to U.S. national security, a significant move early in the Biden administration after the Trump administration's all-out effort to limit the Chinese tech company's reach in the U.S. and abroad.
• [New] Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned unregistered investment-tech platforms to desist from offering foreign securities to Nigerians.
• [New] In view of developments in the past year, two-thirds of HR in Hong Kong are concerned about collection of personal identifiable information, data security and increased cyber risks.
• [New] Regional temperatures may rise by 1.5 °C within a decade, driving extreme weather which will have major impacts on food security, the availability of water, and disease.
• [New] There's a growing realisation in Australia and in its Quadrilateral Security Dialogue partners, the United States, Japan and India, that climate change will have an increasingly serious impact on regional security.
• [New] While the US National Security Strategy identifies Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea as primary security concerns, few can doubt that the Chinese Communist Party is the gravest threat to the United States.
• [New] In exchange, the Taliban would engage in intra-Afghan dialogue and prevent Afghanistan's soil from being used to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.
• [New] The United States' competition with Russia complicates China's perceptions of U.S. threats, and limits Washington's capacity to reassure China.
• [New] One reason why Washington resists acknowledging mutual vulnerability with China as a basis of strategic stability is that the United States provides extended nuclear deterrence to protect the security of its allies in Asia (and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
• [New] China's recent National Defense White Paper does state that its armed forces will accelerate the building of their cyberspace capabilities, develop cyber security and defense means, and build cyber defense capabilities.
• [New] With more US women living in poverty than men, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only put the economic security of women at risk, it has put families at increased risk of falling into poverty and remaining there.
• [New] Most emerging markets will remain short of vaccine supplies, and will not be able to secure sufficient supplies until late 2022 or early 2023.
• [New] In 2021-22, Public Safety Canada will continue to support not-for-profit organizations - such as places of worship, schools and community centres - with funding to enhance their security infrastructure.
• [New] Telcos are expected to implement a wide array of measures in 2021 to secure the next wave of 5G connectivity.

Last updated: 13 April 2021