Questions tagged [foreign-interference]
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Can the UK take action if Iran continues covert influence activities through its embassy?
I was reading through Al Jazeera:
British officials have responded with tighter measures. In March, the UK government said Iran would be required to register any political influence activity inside ...
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Is there any political push for technical solutions to mobile phone security?
The council of Europe has a document titled "Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance". This presents the problem of the compromising of mobile devices via zero-click ...
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How are countries' militaries responding to inflammatory statements made by incoming US leadership?
Recently there have been multiple controversial statements made by the incoming US leadership and associates (i.e. Trump, Musk) towards other countries and their leadership:
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Is there any indication that China is fuelling the unrest in Manipur of India? [closed]
Recently, high-tech drones and rocket propelled grenades have been used by Kuki insurgents in the north-eastern state of Manipur in India.
The following photo shows an artillery rocket (also aftermath ...
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What's the point of Israel doing some astroturfing in the US, when there are plenty of US citizens and US lobby groups willing to support it anyway?
The NYT reports:
The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post ...
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Is Ecuador v. Mexico the first 'elections interference' case at the ICJ?
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Ecuador also accused Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of interfering in Ecuadorian politics, by making “false and injurious statements” that questioned the legitimacy of last year’...
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Is there any benefit in allowing foreign lobbying in a country?
Despite calling for a ban on foreign lobbying, in which Americans
lobby lawmakers and the public for foreign interests, Republican 2024
presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has raised tens of thousands of
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What can the US do to enforce their sanctions and extraterritorial judgment?
The US famously uses acts like FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), or the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) to indirectly get industrial assets (like Alstom that got bought by GE after a 700 ...
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Has China been caught trying to manipulate the elections in other countries than Taiwan?
Although senior Taiwan officials, including the head of the National
Security Council, Wellington Koo, have this year warned that China
could try to sway the presidential and legislative elections ...
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Does social media exacerbate political meddling?
On the back of a previous (now-closed) question: What makes the West susceptible to political interference and foreign meddling?
There has always been a baseline degree to which states seek to ...
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What makes the West susceptible to political interference and foreign meddling? [closed]
There's a frequently expressed sentiment that Putin has been bankrolling all the bad things in Western politics in recent years.
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Why does Russia specifically fund far-rights in Europe?
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Democratic countries that limit the ability of foreign governments to influence their politics
Are there any clearly democratic countries that limit the ability of foreign governments, to openly influence their internal politics?
What about implementing special laws for that purpose?
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How exactly could a TikTok ban be enforced?
Let's say TikTok is banned tomorrow by Congress. How would they be able to actually enforce the ban, assuming TikTok refused to cooperate?
They could definitely convince Apple and Google to remove it ...
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Can Rahul Gandhi ask other democratic nations to intervene in their democracy?
Rahul Gandhi a sitting Member of Parliament of India who went to London and asked Europe and USA to intervene in what he sees as the collapse of democracy in India, which is a sovereign nation.
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Does Germany have a law on foreign influence agents (similar to the US' or Russia's)? Or proposals for something like that?
It seems it's perfectly legal in Germany for parliamentarians to have their trips sponsored by a foreign country. And likewise for more run-of-the-mill influencers, e.g. rally organizers.
So, I'm ...