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Spotlight | China, India, Pakistan
Islamabad bolsters Beijing in Karakoram to open up Iran route

China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 12 September.
China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 12 September.© Indian Press Information Bureau/AFP

With Pakistan's backing, the CCP wants to turn the disputed Shaksgam Valley into a route for delivering weapons to Central Asia and Iran. A recent meeting to this end of the previously dormant China-Pakistan Boundary Commission is viewed as a provocation by New Delhi, which appears powerless to act.

Germany
Ex-BND chief's arrest shakes Europe's private intelligence sector

The former head of Germany's BND Federal Intelligence Service, August Hanning on 2 October 2015, in Berlin.
The former head of Germany's BND Federal Intelligence Service, August Hanning on 2 October 2015, in Berlin.© Michael Kappeler/EPA/MaxPPP

The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, August Hanning, who was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of treason, has worked for multiple corporate intelligence agencies around the world. Their files are now in the hands of the German judicial authorities, who are seeking to establish whether he had links with foreign states.

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