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When looking at the multiple conflicts and crises that convulse the Middle East today, China rarely seems to play a major role. Whether it is the fight against ISIS, the conflict in Libya, the standoff surrounding Qatar or the war in Yemen, China does not appear to have a major stake in any of these […]
In the wake of the latest destabilizing cyber attacks, some Western leaders like Theresa May are joining Russia and China to urge state policing of the internet. This is not wise.
No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found and enjoyed. Two decades later, the future isn’t so bright any more: increasingly, the Internet is used as a weapon and a means of domination by states eager to exploit or curtail global connectivity in order to further their national interests.
Klimburg is a leading voice in the conversation on the implications of this dangerous shift, and in The Darkening Web, he explains why we underestimate the consequences of states’ ambitions to project power in cyberspace at our peril: Not only have hacking and cyber operations fundamentally changed the nature of political conflict—ensnaring states in a struggle to maintain a precarious peace that could rapidly collapse into all-out war—but the rise of covert influencing and information warfare has enabled these same global powers to create and disseminate their own distorted versions of reality in which anything is possible. At stake are not only our personal data or the electrical grid, but the Internet as we know it today—and with it the very existence of open and democratic societies.
Van 22 tot 27 augustus vindt in Moskou de ‘Army 2017’ beurs plaats, een grote wapenbeurs waar Rusland het laatste van het laatste van haar wapenarsenaal ten toon spreidt. Wat moeten we precies verwachten van deze beurs en wie komen daar allemaal op af? BNR Nieuwsradio sprak er over met Sijbren de Jong. Het gehele […]
While President Donald Trump was issuing bombastic threats toward North Korea and Venezuela earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis quietly met with his Dutch counterpart, Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, at the Pentagon on Aug. 15. They discussed the ongoing crises in North Korea and Venezuela and continued their talks on NATO defense […]
As China rolls out its new Silk Road initiative, the EU plans for stricter vetting of foreign investment. HCSS analysts Karlijn Jans, Sijbren de Jong, and Willem Oosterveld discuss the new Silk Road’s implications for the EU and Middle East. Listen to the new HCSS Podcast
We moeten stoppen met de ontwikkeling van ‘killer robots’. Dat zeggen Elon Musk (die van Tesla) en meer dan honderd andere kenners van robots en kunstmatige intelligentie in een brief aan de Verenigde Naties. Zij willen nú actie tegen de ontwikkeling van dit soort wapensystemen, die zelfstandig kunnen besluiten om een doelwit aan te vallen en dus […]
News emerged earlier this week that the EU is looking to more rigorously screen foreign takeovers of European companies. The move comes amid growing concerns about an influx of Chinese investment into Europe’s manufacturing, energy and infrastructure sectors. Since 2013, Beijing has been throwing all of its weight behind rolling out its ‘New Silk Road’. […]
When US President Donald Trump signed the latest batch of sanctions against Russia into law, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the move equivalent to a ‘full-scale trade war’. Medvedev further explained how the US has shown its ‘utter powerlessness’ by doing so. The new round of US sanctions has basically served to extinguish any remaining […]
Gisteren tekende de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump een omstreden wet die extra sancties oplegt aan Rusland. De Europese Unie, die tot nu toe samen optrok met de VS tegen Rusland, is bezorgd. Maar die zorg lijkt onterecht. De Europese vrees voor de nieuwe wet zit hem vooral in de sancties die kunnen worden opgelegd aan […]
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