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Exploring Strategies to Counter Disinformation Effectively

Excerpt: As the Ukraine crisis has demonstrated, we should not assume that freedom of information necessarily leads to a more open or democratic society. Information can be harnessed and manipulated by authoritarian regimes in order to generate confusion and undermine trust in government, often with unpredictable and destabilizing effects on society.

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DND Decides that Silence is the Best Policy

Kelsey Berg examines the government’s recent policy to halt public briefings from the Department of National Defence.

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Improving Ties between Japan and China? Underlying Tensions Remain

John Pollock discusses the destabilizing economic relationship between China and Japan, which heavily relates to the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands.