China, Hong Kong
Hong Kong awash with new security units

The Agencies' Gazette
NASA/Roscosmos, DGSE, Beijing's central military committee

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring you news from the US, Russia, France and China.

United States/Russia Roscosmos to provide security to NASA officers

France Senators see through DGSE recruitment numbers

China Security bodies directly answerable to Xi Jinping

China, Hong Kong
Xi unveils Hong Kong and Macau renaissance plan

The Chinese Communist Party has sent an official delegation to Hong Kong and Macau to explain the details of its new project aimed at creating greater coherence between Beijing and its "periphery".

Hong Kong
Beijing's VIE crackdown a boost for Hong Kong corporate intelligence firms

Many companies are calling on Hong Kong business intelligence firms to better understand the impact of Beijing's latest measures regarding variable interest entities (VIEs), which give foreigners a backdoor way to invest in Chinese companies.

China, United States
Police national security director Frederic Choi kept out of top role

The senior police official had been tipped to lead the Hong Kong Police Force before being caught in a massage parlour during a raid. The latest senior security appointments are further tightening Beijing's grip over the former British territory.

China, Hong Kong
Mainland's tightening grip on Hong Kong security agencies jostled by massage parlour raid

The director of the Hong Kong Police Force's national security department, Frederic Choi Chin-pang, was placed on leave this month, hamstringing an office that has seen its powers rapidly expand under Beijing's national security law.

China
Wang, kingmaker at Gonganbu

Chen Feng, a security official who previously served under Wang [...]

China
Guoanbu, Gonganbu at heart of Hong Kong's new security agency

Top officials from China's Ministry of State Security (Guoanbu) and Ministry of Public Security (Gonganbu) will help run the new [...]