Russia Abandons a Treaty: Environmental Protection During Armed Conflict

Dr Sari Arho Havrén, a China analyst at defence think tank Rusi, said Beijing usually took “several targeted actions” to retaliate against a country. As well as imposing trade barriers, it could employ diplomatic retaliation, “such as imposing visa restrictions on British officials or journalists, and extending controls on British nationals or businesses in Hong Kong”. She added that it was likely China would beef up anti-British propaganda in Chinese state media, a tactic it has employed against South Korea, Japan, and in cases involving H&M and the NBA. “This will likely amplify security tensions and reinforce perceptions of China as a threat, making it very difficult to reverse that assessment,” she said. “All this serves as a reminder that it is increasingly difficult to promote economic relations in isolation from national security.”

The framing I would have is security first,” says Andrew Cainey, a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. “That is China’s approach too.”

I think it is one of the areas in the conflict where we have seen the most significant change in the past 18 months...While there has been a lot of focus in commentary on the adoption of FPV drones on the battlefield, one of the things that is most impacting Ukraine’s ability to hold the line is Russia’s use of hundreds of glide bombs a week, largely delivered by SU-34s to smash into positions."

The NCSC annual review is not a vehicle for announcing government policy — and it shouldn’t be – but today’s report highlights a wider uncertainty about whether the UK's current strategy is moving the dial fast enough to meet the growing scale and sophistication of cyber threats.

These cases require complex, suspect-focused investigations that must take place in parallel with upstream, disruption-driven interventions against Russian ransomware groups.

The dependency on US companies stands in direct contrast to the UK’s desire for sovereign tech capabilities…Without US funding, the UK cannot fulfil its own tech ambitions.