In the last few months, suspicious fires in warehouses and aboard aircraft, the severing of undersea power and Internet cables, GPS jamming, cyber operations against critical civilian infrastructure, and allegations of influence operations and election interference have been depicted as ‘hybrid warfare’ by both politicians and the media. So-called ‘hybrid threats’ or ‘hybrid attacks’, as well as allegations of the use of proxies to project power while attempting to obfuscate attribution and legal as well as political responsibility are a symptom of worrying developments, in particular in Europe. The geopolitical environment today is characterized by increasing/ed tensions among states, a militarized security environment, instability within countries, projection of power through a range of covert and coercive measures, and – at the global level – an increasing number of armed conflicts.
The TikTok saga shows the app Cold War has turned hot – now the EU must respond – Go Health Pro
The fate of TikTok has become a new front in the rivalry between China and the United States, writes Dimitar Lilkov. But regardless of how the saga ends, the EU must be ready to step in and protect its own citizens. In a way, it had to come to this. For years, the TikTok saga … Read more
