The impacts of the long-term trends towards a warming climate, more air pollution, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity are likely to fuel economic and social discontent--and possibly upheaval--through 2018.
Climate change poses long-term threats to national security and may lead to social unrest.
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I think those are two very relevant issues that ought to be thought through and policy ought to be devised.
China we've seen continues to use an aggressive campaign to vacuum up advanced U.S. technology however and whenever it can, whether stealing it through cyber or buying it on the open market.
Clearly, we are in a situation--we're not in a passive situation from a world threats standpoint.
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