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The missile trap
India, like Turkey, is moving ahead with its purchase of advanced S-400 air defence systems from Russia
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Arming a military seems simple enough to most of us. Sure, there are questions of funding and availability, but once those are sorted, the rest should be easy, right? Military authorities just figure out what they need and the relevant departments just shop around for the best deal possible?
In truth, though, defence deals are rarely, if ever, straightforward. The entire process is deeply mired in politics, even for nations that appear to have no shortage of willing suppliers.
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China’s Foreign Ministry this week issued the most forceful defense of its policies in Xinjiang to date, calling allegations of “genocide” in the region the “lie of the century.”
The statement made in response to ongoing calls for a possible boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics represents the culmination of a long evolution of China’s official narrative regarding its treatment of Uyghurs.
This evolving strategy, from outright denial to hardened public defense, is closely tied to the Chinese government’s own increased sense of confidence on the world stage, and its willingness to confront its critics in the West head on, be it over Xinjiang, the South China Sea or Hong Kong, a CNN analysis shows.
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On the morning of June 27, 2017, it seemed as if Ukraine had slipped back in time and into the wrong century â almost nothing worked. Not the ATMs, the trains, the airports, the television stations. Even the radiation monitors at the old Chernobyl nuclear plant were down.
Ukraine, in the midst of a long and undeclared war with Russia, had been hit by mysterious blackouts before but this was eating through computer networks at a terrifying pace, turning screens dark across the country. And it seemed to be spreading further than intended, out through Europe and around the globe, paralysing hospitals and companies from London to Denver, even the Cadbury chocolate factory in Tasmania, and bringing swathes of the worldâs shipping to a halt. By the time the culprit â a wild variant of malicious computer code (or worm) known as NotPetya â was stopped hours later, it had looped back into Russia, where it originated, and racked up a