What are traditional and non-traditional security threats?

Different connotations: traditional security threats mainly refer to some high political security issues in the traditional sense, which are military threats facing the country and military factors threatening international security. Compared with traditional security threats, non-traditional security threats are not outstanding security threats that human society has never encountered or rarely seen in the past. Besides military, political and diplomatic conflicts, they are other factors that threaten the survival and development of sovereign countries and all mankind.

Secondly, the extension is different: traditional security threats can be divided into three categories according to the degree of threat: arms race, military deterrence and war. There are world wars, total wars and local wars, international wars and civil wars, conventional wars and nuclear wars, and so on. According to the object of threat, it can be divided into national defense issues, territorial disputes, sovereignty issues and military posture issues between countries. Non-traditional security issues mainly include: economic security, financial security, population explosion, ecological environment security, information security, resource security, terrorism, weapons proliferation, disease spread, transnational crime, smuggling and drug trafficking, illegal immigration, piracy, money laundering and so on.