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[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Plus: Anthropic's record $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved. https://t.co/h25EKNXU8r

[WIRED @WIRED]

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries. https://t.co/atT3e7aOLs

[HFX China @HFXChina]

經過這次 #中國 以間諜罪名判處 #加拿大 商人麥可·斯帕弗(#MichaelSpavor)入獄 11年後，所有#民主政體 都不能坐以待斃，更必須要團結起來。

https://t.co/yCOdZDQjSK

[HFX China @HFXChina]

All #democracies must unite and act now after #China sentences #Canada’s #MichaelSpavor to 11 years in jail on trumped up charges of spying.

#FreeTwoMichaels
#StandTogetherOnChina against #ArbitraryDetention

https://t.co/yCOdZDQjSK

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman @SenateForeign]

Hosting @HFXForum in #Taipei rightly recognizes the accomplishments of #Taiwan & its leaders. Taiwan is a haven for #democracy and #freespeech: the perfect place to discuss the critical security issues affecting us all.

[Halifax The Forum @HFXforum]

It’s our pleasure to co-host HFX TAIPEI with @INDSRTW , the top military-focused think tank in Taiwan, to celebrate the courage and achievements of one of the world’s most vibrant democracies.

#HFXTaipei2022

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

Halifax security forum organizers to stage January conference in Taiwan, just weeks before controversial Beijing Olympics /via @globeandmail https://t.co/VsnHCNhdkO

[Halifax The Forum @HFXforum]

HFX is proud to announce the expansion of our work to strengthen strategic cooperation among the world’s democracies.

HFX 非常榮幸地宣佈，我們���拓展其工作以加強世界民主體系之間的戰略合作。

https://t.co/m3EHckeBvI

[HFX China @HFXChina]

哈利法克斯國際安全論壇非常榮幸地公佈 2020年「約翰·麥凱恩公共服務領導獎」的得主。

[Halifax The Forum @HFXforum]

HFX is proud to announce the winner of the 2020 John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service.

https://t.co/mXZO07sbXy

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

Who will have the courage to end this long national nightmare and challenge @BorisJohnson for the Premiership?The country cannot endure much more of this gross incompetence. He should retire to the overpriced after dinner speaking circuit where he belongs. Time for a grown up PM!

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

An extract from my piece for The Commentator on the potential political and economic impacts of the coronavirus that was published on Saturday 29th February. I think it still stands up! https://t.co/J885IBjLmb

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

What I wrote in an article for The Commentator on the potential political and economic impacts of the coronavirus that was published on Saturday 29th February. I think it holds up. https://t.co/J885IBjLmb #blameboris

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

If the Conservative Party doesn’t throw @BorisJohnson overboard they will find Labour winning the next election by a landslide; the likes of which we haven’t seen since the National Government of the the 1930s. #blameboris

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

The public has been treated like a yo-yo by @BorisJohnson and Downing Street. People’s lives and livelihoods are not to be toyed with. And whilst we do not like our Prime Minister’s to take themselves too seriously, we do expect them to take the job seriously. #blameboris

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

The reason for this is government incompetence. Pure and simple. They wasted the summer and failed to prepare for the predictable winter 2nd wave. The public MUST hold Downing Street responsibile! This was avoidable. The people are paying the price for No.10’s miserable failures!

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

This is a crisis of the Prime Minister’s own making. A second wave was entirely predictable and in line with what happened with the Spanish Flu in a 1918. If the government hadn’t squandered the summer, Boris wouldn’t be cancelling Christmas. This is his fault. Don’t be mistaken.

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

Last weekend @BorisJohnson was hosting a #climateambitionsummit instead of focusing like a lazer beam on saving #Christmas for millions of hard-working Brits and their families. This Prime Minister’s priorities are not your priorities! #BinBoris

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

As I understand it, the tests for the Civil Contingencies Act to be invoked are not met as government has had enough warning of problems to be able to legislate. #BinBoris

[Patrick Sullivan @patjsullivan]

The government would have to invoke the Civil Contingencies Act to impose a new tier without a vote on Monday #BinBoris