While South Africa should pay careful attention to all its existing trade and economic relations, particular attention should go to its intra-African economic relations.
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Investigations of the 9/11 attacks show that a short, unstable transition between two presidents can weaken US security. Trump’s sweeping staff changes compound the risk, experts say.
With face masks now compulsory or recommended in various parts of the country, how are facial recognition systems functioning?
Recommendations from a final report offer a few advances in striking the balance between national security and press freedom, but do not go nearly far enough.
As concerns mount in the US and Australia, TikTok is trying to deflect concerns over its perceived ties to the Chinese government. Its PR moves, however, may fall short.
The former national security adviser seems likely to be sued and could face criminal liability.
The decision to charge an incel youth with terrorism reinforces worrying trends in counterterrorism.
Warnings about major disease outbreaks are supposed to come from national and international medical intelligence and surveillance agencies that most Americans have never heard of.
Under a new national security test the foreign investment review board will have to be notified by foreign investors hoping to secure a ‘sensitive national security business.
Some changes in the new security bill submitted to parliament last week are welcome, but others require careful scrutiny, especially when the rights of children are at stake.
Since the Cold War, Americans have shifted from engaging in active self-rescue to passively waiting for help from a centralized, bureaucratic federal emergency response.
Mike Burgess, the head of ASIO, warns there are more foreign agents operating in Australia than at the height of the cold war - and many of them have the capability, intent, and persistence to cause significant harm.
US military leaders have to plan for operations all over the world, so they can’t afford to ignore climate change or debate its causes.
Immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania constitute less than 1% of terrorism cases in the United States, and none of the cases in the last two years.
Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren’t happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.
Even if the government was willing to bend on media freedom, the mindset within the public service remains fixed on secrecy and the control of information.
We have not been able to develop an intelligence workforce that can keep up with the speed of advancing technologies and their threat to our national security.
A Senate report recommended several measures the government should take to prepare for climate-fuelled migration, natural disasters and conflicts. The response so far has been underwhelming.
To understand the threat better, we need to devote more resources to monitoring and tracking far-right forums and social networks and a national database tracking hate crimes.
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