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Our vulnerable world: Taiwan makes more than 90% of the world’s advanced computer chips

Supply chain problems, COVID-19 and America’s reliance on China and East Asia have left the production of semiconductors vulnerable.

Crikey

China could use "economic coercion" against Taiwan

China has positioned itself to take further actions against Taiwan, including possible "economic coercion," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday.

Reuters

Kilmeade: "Al Qaeda feels pretty good"

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby strongly disagreed that Ayman al-Zawahri killing was bad news

Salon

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Key Hong Kong court ruling to lift lid on national security cases

Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong court delivered a landmark ruling on Tuesday that will help lift the lid on secrecy-shrouded pre-trial hearings held under a national security law.

AFP

Hong Kong high court quashes reporting ban on key national security case

Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday quashed a court reporting restriction for a landmark national security case involving a now disbanded group that once organised the city's annual candlelight vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

Reuters

Bumps, bipartisanship in long fight for semiconductor bill

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector

The Independent UK

Punjab, Haryana CMs call for joint efforts to curb drug menace

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar were addressing the gathering at a national conference on drug trafficking and national security at the Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh

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Meghalaya favours Chinese smart meters: Trinamool

It may pose security threat, the party says.

The Hindu

Biden Extends US National Emergency with Respect to Lebanon over Iran Arms Transfers to Hezbollah

President Joe Biden has extended the US National Emergency with respect to Lebanon. “It is necessary to continue the national emergency declared” in 2007, Biden said in a message to the US Congress on Thursday. “Certain ongoing activities, such as Iran’s continuing arms transfers to Hezbollah — which include increasingly…

Asharq Al-Awsat

No evidence of looming Chinese military action against Taiwan, U.S. official says

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on Friday the U.S. has seen no evidence of looming Chinese military activity against Taiwan, when asked about a possible visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Reuters

Hong Kong activists face years in jail for subversion

Hong Kong (AFP) - Four Hong Kong activists on Friday pleaded guilty to subversion, a violation that could see them jailed for years under the city's Beijing-imposed national security law.

AFP

US Says It is Now Up to Iran to Take the Deal or Reject It

Negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear agreement have been completed, and it is now up to Iran to decide whether they're going to take that deal or not, announced a US official. NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stressed that the US administration remains committed to seeing Iran never…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Watchdog singles out ACT court for 'extremely unusual' decision in secret trial of former military intelligence officer that 'should not have happened'

The top-secret trial, conviction, sentencing and jailing of a former military intelligence officer known as Witness J has been described as "unusual" and "unprecedented", with one of Australia's national security watchdogs warning it "should never happen again".

ABC News

'Never again' for secret spy prosecution

The attorney-general launched a review into Australia's national security laws following an inquiry into the secret conviction and sentencing of a former spy.

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Crikey

‘Never again’ for secret spy prosecution

The attorney-general launched a review into Australia’s national security laws following an inquiry into the secret conviction and sentencing of a former spy.

The Guardian - AU

Labor announces national security law review after inquiry criticises secrecy of Witness J case

Report describes ‘unprecedented’ secrecy that ‘should not have happened and should never happen again’

Irish Mirror

National Security Adviser warns of 'accidental' nuclear war between the West and China

He warned of the “pace and scale with which China is expanding its nuclear and conventional arsenals”

Daily Mirror

Nuclear war moving closer as China rapidly boosts arsenal, warns UK security boss

UK's National Security Adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove has given a speech warning that a nuclear war is now a greater threat as China rapidly builds up its weapons arsenal

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Reason

The CHIPS Act Is Corporate Welfare Disguised as Industrial Policy

If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.

The Guardian - UK

Risk of nuclear war from cutting off China and Russia, says security tsar

Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s national security adviser, says backdoor channels have deteriorated

The Independent UK

UN experts urge Hong Kong authorities to repeal security law

Independent human rights experts backed by the United Nations are calling on authorities in Hong Kong to repeal a national security law that squelched protests and criticism over China’s tightening grip on the freewheeling semi-autonomous region

The Independent UK

World entering ‘dangerous new age’ amid rapid spread of lethal weapons, warns UK national security adviser

Sophisticated weapons being acquired by armed groups as well as states, Sir Stephen Lovegrove says

Reuters

Hong Kong security law, imposed by China and denounced by the West, must be repealed, says U.N. panel

Hong Kong's controversial national security law should be repealed, experts on the UN Human Rights Committee said on Wednesday, amid concerns the legislation is being used to crack down on free speech and dissent in the former British colony.

Reuters

U.S. says Biden-Xi call expected to cover Taiwan tension, Ukraine

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are expected to talk on Thursday, a source familiar with the planning said, with Taiwan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine expected to be key agenda items.

WEKU

At 75, the CIA is back where it started - countering the Kremlin

As the CIA's marks its 75th anniversary, Russia's war in Ukraine is giving the spy agency a new direction after dark periods during the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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