What are non-traditional security threats?

Non-traditional security threats mainly refer to security problems in other fields caused by non-military and political conflicts. These problems have never been encountered or rarely seen by human society in the past, and have gradually emerged in recent years, and interact with one or more other countries outside the battlefield, which can pose a major threat to the survival and development of the country and other countries, as well as the region and the world.

Non-traditional security threats are relative to traditional security threats, which refer to other factors that threaten the survival and development of sovereign countries and even all mankind except military, political and diplomatic conflicts.

Non-traditional security issues mainly include: economic security, financial security, ecological environment security, information security, resource security, terrorism, weapons proliferation, disease spread, transnational crime, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, piracy, money laundering and so on.

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In response to non-traditional security threats, joint military exercises were organized with the theme of joint anti-terrorism, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. In recent years, non-traditional security threats have become prominent. With the theme of joint anti-terrorism, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, the number of joint military exercises organized to deal with non-traditional security threats has surged.

China's participation in the "Joint -2003" joint military exercise of the armed forces of SCO member States is a joint anti-terrorism military exercise, which has laid a good foundation for further strengthening the anti-terrorism cooperation mechanism and maintaining regional security and stability. Since the beginning of this year, almost all large-scale joint military exercises held around the world have included the content of dealing with non-traditional security threats.

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