Note sulla terza guerra mondiale (a pezzi) – Notes on World War III (in pieces)
All that is taken up here, in the complexity of open sources, does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Global Eye
- (Cybersecurity) Alessandro Mascellino, Infosecurity. Singapore has created a new task force to help businesses and research and educational institutions defend against an increased number of ransomware attacks. Singapore Creates Counter Ransomware Task Force to Tackle Threats
- (Cybersecurity) Matt Lawrence, Infosecurity. Arguably the biggest challenge facing the cybersecurity industry is the shortage of skilled professionals. The worldwide skills gap is much debated, with organizations not having enough viable candidates to fill vacant positions. Most estimates suggest there are millions of unfilled cybersecurity positions worldwide. Cyber Skills Shortage is Caused by Analyst Burnout
- (Cybersecurity) Phil Muncaster, Infosecurity. A leading UK cybersecurity agency has updated its threat notification service in a bid to improve the quality of alerts. NCSC Updates Early Warning Threat Notifications
- (Cybersecurity) Phil Muncaster, Infosecurity. Microsoft has confirmed that a misconfigured endpoint unintentionally leaked business and personally identifiable information (PII) for some customers. Microsoft Misconfiguration Exposes Customer Data
- (Food and Energy Crises) Claudia Ringler, Hua Xie, IFPRI. It seems that joint food and energy crises have become the norm: Three have now occurred in just the last 15 years, driven by climate change and other human-made crises such as COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war. How can we address recurring global food and fuel crises? The role of solar powered irrigation
- (Food System Sustainability) Swati Malhotra, Rob Vos, IFPRI. Even as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic dissipate, the world continues to face a severe food security crisis, exacerbated by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, putting it further off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2—ending hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. G20 Agriculture Ministers underscore importance of food system sustainability, open and fair trade, and digital innovations as long-term food crisis responses
- (Perspectives) Hari Bansh Jha, VIF. The noted scientist Albert Einstein was quite puzzled when he was asked about the horrifying and dreadful impact of the World War 3 (WW3). He is on record to have said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Following the WW3, if humans exist, there will be nothing left for them for WW4 to fight with simply because of the magnitude and brutality of nuclear weapons, he added. Stopping the Third World War
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- (China) Anushka Saxena, VIF. Right before the third plenum of the fifth National People’s Congress in 1980, Deng Xiaoping, former Chinese leader-in-charge made a speech ‘On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership’. The Changing Nature of ‘Collective Leadership’ in Xi’s China
- (China) RUSI. Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), joins us to take a closer look at how China is utilising soft power in the space domain. This includes Tiangong, its space station; space situational awareness (SSA) ground stations all over the world; and BeiDou, China’s GPS equivalent. Are these measures successful in projecting power? Where do they fit into the wider Chinese foreign policy of the Belt and Road Initiative? And is Russia likely to remain China’s chief partner in this field? Episode 22: Chinese Power Projection to Lower-Earth Orbit and Beyond
- (China) Reuters. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a series of emergency meetings over the past week with leading semiconductor companies, seeking to assess the damage from the U.S. chip restrictions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. China holds emergency talks with chip firms after U.S. curbs -Bloomberg News
- (China – India) Kalpit A Mankikar, ORF. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s often repeated maxim is that to understand China, one needs to understand the Communist Party. Last year, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its centenary. In these 100 years, the Party went on from being a rag-tag guerilla army to one that not only administered over one-sixth of humanity, but also transformed an impoverished nation into the second largest economy. The Great Deluge of the 1980s-1990s shattered the Soviet Union and swept away fraternal regimes in Eastern Europe. Experts posit that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) survived because it was able to adapt and create institutions for political governance. Finding the implications for India in Xi Jinping’s speech
- (India) Nilanjan Ghosh, ORF. The CACP recommendations on Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the mandated six Rabi crops — wheat, barley, gram, lentil, rapeseed and mustard, and safflower — are arrived by considering several factors. Rabi MSP sends wrong signals
- (Iran) VIF. Amb. Anil Trugunayat, Distinguished Fellow at VIF dissects the core issues in recent protest in Iran and evaluates it’s domestic and regional implications. Iran Protest and it’s domestic and regional implications
- (Israel) Rina Bassist, Al Monitor. Israel’s Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Oded Forer and his Bahraini counterpart, Wael Bin Nasser Al Mubarak, signed Oct. 19 a joint declaration of agricultural cooperation. The declaration aims to promote and expand cooperation between Israel and Bahrain in the fields of agriculture, livestock and food security. Israel pushes aquaculture cooperation in answer to global food security
- (Japan – Australia) Global Times. An upgraded military agreement expected to be signed between Australia and Japan to share intelligence assessments on China is seen by experts as a coordinated move under the US to militarily intimidate China and pave the way for Japan’s joining of the Five Eyes Alliance. However, they warned that closer cooperation between two US allies will only make them stepping stones for the US, as making any military deployment in such a strategically sensitive area will bring a counterattack on the front line, while the US reaps the profits across the Pacific. Closer military ties between Australia, Japan only expose themselves to sensitive waters, while US reaps profits across the Pacific: experts
- (Myanmar) Priya Pillai, US-Asia Law Institute. Myanmar is in a state of crisis. The coup orchestrated by its military in February 2021 has resulted in gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. According to the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights reporting to the Human Rights Council in September 2022, 2,316 civilians have been killed in Myanmar and more than 15,000 individuals have been arrested, with over 12,000 still in detention. The country is in the grip of a growing humanitarian crisis due to denial of access to aid by the authorities. Myanmar and the Myriad Efforts Towards International Justice
- (Sudan) Al Monitor. At least 150 people have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes triggered by land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, a medic said Thursday. At least 150 killed in two days of fighting in Sudan’s south: medics
- (UK) Elizabeth Piper, Andrew Macaskill, Muvija M, Reuters. Liz Truss said on Thursday she would resign as British prime minister, brought down just six weeks into the job by an economic programme that shattered investor confidence and enraged much of her Conservative Party. Liz Truss announces resignation as UK prime minister
- (USA – Russia) Sarah Mcfarlane, Timothy Gardner, Susanna Twidale, Reuters. U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s Russian. America’s new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem
- (USA – China) MERICS. New US controls on high-tech exports to China could be the beginning of two entirely separate semiconductor ecosystems, say Rebecca Arcesati and Antonia Hmaidi. Industry, allies and partners face tough choices as US-China tech war escalates
