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China, India
Xi Jinping banks on Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Vietnam to turn next wave of BRICS admissions to China's advantage

Beijing wants the BRICS grouping to expand quickly in the hope of turning it into a strategically beneficial tool, much like the New Silk Roads programme. But India is increasingly wary of China's ambitions.

The Agencies' Gazette
No new AUKUS members, DGSE renovations, Beijing watching IDF, GIGN and RAID on France-Canada flights

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United KingdomOpposition to AUKUS expansion over intelligence technologies

FranceFurther refurbishment for DGSE before relocation

China/IsraelBeijing eyes on Baladia City training centre

FranceArmed GIGN and RAID officers board France-Canada flights after 15 years of talks

France, Russia
French intelligence delves back into Chechen diaspora

At a time of heightened terrorism threat, the main exiled Chechen leaders are refocusing on radicalisation prevention among their youth, an issue that had been put on the back burner in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Qatar, United States
US court case downs Doha's drone ambitions

Drone tech provider Textron has taken legal action against its former Qatari partner, an entity the Doha government wants to make a major defence player. The lawsuit has put the brakes on Doha's plans to use US technology to develop its own offering.

United Kingdom
UAE's spymaster, the British short seller and anonymous X account holders in smear campaign

In the short selling world, it has become the latest thing to mount a false smear campaign and accuse the real target of being behind it. The UAE's spymaster Tahnoon bin Zayel Al Nahyan appears to have become caught in the crosshairs of such an operation.

Ukraine
Griselda joins Ukraine's intelligence data fusion architecture

Ahead of Russia's winter offensive, Ukraine is boosting its data fusion architecture with the integration of the new state-of-the-art interservice software Griselda.