What Is Your National Vulnerability?

 

The Republic of Singapore is significantly reinforcing the need to review reliability and diversity in supplies of its imports, food and foreign worker availability. The period after Covid 19 arrived has changed many assumptions in cross border travel, trade and mobility of talent.

Accessibility to niche and common ingredients has affected its restaurants.  Eggs had to be imported from Poland.  Special cuts of beef from Australia dwindled.
Prices of imported items in deli supermarkets doubled.

The links of globalisation have been disrupted. An island nation that relies so much on air travel has been jolted off a key pillar of its usual economic drivers.

What kind of vital security does your society cannot afford to lose?

No one nation has everything covered in socio-economic needs.  It is not only a pandemic that brings to greater focus a country's vulnerabilities, but war, natural disasters and technological change.

South Korean society prefers peace time security to continue its impressive economic growth.  Saddled geographically between North Korea, China and Japan, it has more geopolitical risks than most other countries. 

South Africa can yearn for social and economic cohesion security.  In a rainbow nation with several languages, cultures and internal economic disparity, unique challenges arise from its dramatic past in order to fulfil its future potential.

The USA has recently experienced continuing racial divisiveness, declining public infrastructure issues,  polarisation of political beliefs and actions, mayhem from widespread gun ownership use, mismanagement of an epidemic and public safety problems. Together the various States and the Union face a critical problem in society restoration security.

Corruption, deepening social divides based on racial and religious differences plus political upheavals plague the Federation of Malaysia.   This multi-ethnic nation lacks a united cohesion security in order to put its house in order.

Myanmar and Thailand  have strong cultural and national identities ruled by governments with military backgrounds.  Recent street protests suggest differences in agreement of governance security.

Australia has back up petroleum  reserves stored in another country.  Its long term dependence on coal driven sources and mineral resources of its rich lodes can be facing changes.  Its domestic manufacturing base has been sadly whittled away.  This continental nation has an economy so dependent on foreign buyers, markets and political sentiment.  Australia does face a lack of a self sufficient, independent and resilient security.

Scandinavian and Baltic nations continue to live in the political, economic and geographical hinterland of both Russia and Germany.  Most important to these less populated and culturally different countries is embedding a stronger geopolitical security.

The island nations of the South Pacific are vulnerable to rising sea levels, micro economic disruptions and political influences from bigger nations.  They yearn for climate change and geopolitical security.

The United Kingdom continues to evolve in a downsized manner, moving on from days of the Industrial Revolution, Empire, the European Union and worldwide influence.  The make up of its society has changed in demographics, economy and flavour of political union.  The UK seeks a significant purpose and future role security.

New Zealand, seemingly always at the edge of the World, continues to have ground breaking leadership in the way she conducts herself.   This nation asserts its more independent stance in world affairs even if she can viewed as part of the Five Eyes as concocted by the USA.   Her indigenous Maoris perhaps have the highest degree of governance participation for any so called Western nation.   A society and nation also so in touch with Mother Earth, she perhaps yearns for better natural disaster management security.

Russia spans so wide across its breadth, has a heritage of a rich and yet convulsive history, plus being so different in its political bearing after the fall of its royalty.   It is a behemoth of a civilisation yearning for better economic management and social order security.

India can be a multitude of people, cultures and economic variety.  Its Hindu core is emphasised by the contemporary Government, even if the land has had various waves of influences from the Persians, Arabs,Moghuls and British, amongst others.  This ancient land continues the need for economic, food and political cohesion security.

China has had thousands of years developing its own culture, philosophy and traditions.  Its meteoric rise in economic, technological and national purpose over the past 30 years has changed the character of the chess board of the world stage.  Yet it continues to battle the challenges of getting better security in international acceptance, population management and self reliance.

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