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The Foreign Office described the aim as building "defence facilities … without hindrance or political agitation", according to recently released Colonial Office archives.
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Mr Wei points out that Asia is building defences "in peacetime".
That is a good measure of activity but, for example, values equally rebuilding cities after flooding and building defences to prevent that flooding.
We all need to be more open to listening to each other and stop building defences when someone challenges us on our behaviours that oppress others.
(The treaty sought to preserve cold-war stability between the superpowers, and avoid the temptation of a first strike by dissuading each from building defences that could fend off a counter-strike by the other's long-range nuclear missiles).
Many of the organisations at the meeting are concerned the UK focuses too heavily on the trade-off between the cost and benefits of building defences rather than using the level of protection required by communities as a starting point.
But the logic of building defences before they are needed rather than after the event is hard to fault.The third doctrinal question with which regulators are now wrestling relates to where risks are concentrated.
Yet, as it did last time, the Blair government should welcome a robust debate.A false alarmDuring the cold war, when the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction helped to keep the peace, a case could be made that building defences against incoming missiles would be destabilising.
The NCSC, which is the front window for the government surveillance agency GCHQ, has been gradually building defences and is due to publish shortly a 60-plus page dossier outlining what has worked and what has not since it opened for operations in October 2016.
They include large-scale infrastructure changes – such as building defences to protect against sea-level rise or improving the quality of road surfaces to withstand hotter temperatures – as well behavioural shifts such as individuals using less water, farmers planting different crops and more households and businesses buying flood insurance.
They were forced to take cover and stop building defences.
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