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Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Sales rep to Pakistani navy, Ali Alwabel, trades in on Newcastle-Riyadh connections

Former Saudi navy officer-turned-consultant Ali Alwabel wants to branch out into new lines of business and is building ties between Riyadh and business circles in Newcastle, whose football club is owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

The Tech Telegraph
ChapsVision and TRM Labs on crypto probes, ENISA threat intelligence, Canada's digital counter-intelligence probes

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

ParisChapsVision and TRM Labs favourites to win interior ministry's main crypto investigation contract

AthensENISA bulks up threat intelligence response

OttawaCould military counter-intelligence be denied access to IT systems investigations?

China, Hungary
CCP takes BRI a step further with Global Security Initiative

China has asked some countries with which it enjoys strong bilateral relations to subscribe to Xi Jinping's vision of world order, as laid out in his Global Security Initiative. It is a new China-centric geopolitical viewpoint that goes further than Beijing's Belt & Road Initiative goals.

France
Antoine Creux steps down as Société Générale security chief, with no designated successor

After six and a half years at the head of the French bank's security department, Antoine Creux is stepping down this week and will be replaced on an interim basis. The names of several generals are being proposed as his successor.

China, Taiwan
State Security agenda for Xi's meeting with former Taiwanese president

China's Ministry of State Security has urged Xi Jinping to meet with the former president of Taiwan in Beijing next week on 8 April.

China, Taiwan, United States
ODNI farms out study into Chinese aggression

US intelligence is preparing for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by commissioning a study into the economic consequences of various hostile moves by Beijing, which the Pentagon reckons could happen any time from 2027.