Over the last decade, China, Africa's largest trade partner, has quietly invested significant sums in building communications infrastructure across Africa, providing technical upgrades for state broadcasters and training journalists from across the continent.

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The EO actually does a couple of good things: It authorizes government agencies to share classified and unclassified threat and technical information with critical infrastructure owners and operators and allows for the expedited processing of security clearances to personnel within these entities.

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In 1995 I was working the technical support help desk for Xerox, EDS had just won a contract to support the Xerox infrastructure.

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