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Biden: No Need for Confrontation With China

On Friday, U.S President Joe Biden stated that there is no need for a confrontation with China, but instead, technological and economic competition. U.S. President Joe Biden noted on Friday that the relationship between Washington and Beijing should be focused on technological and economic competition instead of unnecessary U.S-China unnecessary …

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Top US, Russian envoys discuss Ukraine at ‘critical moment’

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that a weekslong standoff over Ukraine is at a “critical moment,” as he headed into talks with his Russian counterpart amid rising concerns that Europe could again be beset by war. Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lowered expectations ahead of …

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How China’s PLA exploits information disruption

The PLA has carefully studied the use of network-centric militaries such as the US Army and observed the reliance of those organisations upon information as a key element of their technological superiority. A theoretical representation of the centrality of information to western methods of warfare is provided by the Observe, …

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Give a dog a gun: arming quadrupedal military robots

Semi-autonomous and remotely controlled weapons systems are established military tools, and several armed forces are experimenting with quadrupedal robots to carry equipment. But should we be concerned about efforts to arm doglike robots with lethal weapons? Norbert Neumann explores the current state of quadrupedal systems and their capabilities. Service robots …

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