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INDIA/CANADA – India summons Canada envoy after Trudeau backs protests (Al Arabiya)

India on Friday summoned Canada’s ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by...

USA/SOMALIA – Trump orders removal of ‘most’ personnel from Somalia: Pentagon (Al Arabiya)

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the...

USA/MEXICO – The upcoming friction in US-Mexico relations (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/04/the-upcoming-friction-in-us-mexico-relations/

DEMOCRACIES/DISINFORMATION – Podcast: How democracies can go on offense against disinformation (Quinta Jurecic, Alina Polyakova, and Daniel Fried, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-how-democracies-can-go-on-offense-against-disinformation/

USA – Starting off on the right foot: Biden’s near-term arms control and strategic policy challenge (Frank A. Rose, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/04/starting-off-on-the-right-foot-bidens-near-term-arms-control-and-strategic-policy-challenge/

NORTH KOREA – North Korea faces one of its toughest winters (Gabriela Bernal, East Asia Forum)

North Korea’s economic situation is facing exceptional challenges after the government imposed strict virus-containing measures in response to COVID-19. Since late January 2020, the...

CHINA – China pursues quality over high-speed growth (Yanrui Wu, East Asia Forum)

The Fifth Plenary Session (‘Fifth Plenum’) of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded on 29 October and sent a strong signal...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iranian hackers access unsecured HMI at Israeli Water Facility (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111934/ics-scada/israeli-water-facility-breached.html

SECURITY – Recently disclosed CVE-2020-4006 VMware zero-day was reported by NSA (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111928/security/vmware-zero-day-vulnerability.html

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