Arms Clamp on Taiwan to Stay

Where did the Frigate Commissions End Up? 

A number of elements obtained by Intelligence Online in recent days cast new light on the mysterious commission of FFR160 [...]

France-Taiwan, the Bargaining Continues 

Officials from the French and Taiwanese foreign ministries made headway recently in their discreet talks on a second sale of [...]

New France-Taiwan Frigate Deal? 

Officials from the French and Taiwan defense ministries are secretly negotiating the sale of two new La Fayette-class frigates to Taipei just as the French judicial authorities are displaying an ever-increasing interest in bribes surrounding a 1991 contract for the [. [...]

MAJOR PUSH BY TAIWAN INTELLIGENCE 

The Rangoon bureau of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been leaking information over the past two weeks on [...]

SCANDAL GRIPS COUNTER-ESPIONAGE AGENCY 

Taiwan's civilian counter-espionage agency has found itself at the very heart of a political crisis that could well sweep away [...]

CHINESE GANGS TIGHTEN GRIP IN PARIS 

One of the biggest surprises in a recent report by the French police intelligence agency Renseignements Generaux (RG) on clandestine [...]

BEIJING ACCUSES TAIWAN OF USING INTERNET 

Police in People's China arrested around 20 Taiwan businessmen in late May on charges of spying for the nationalist island. [...]

THE TWO CHINA'S WATCH ONE ANOTHER 

The New China News Agency (Xinhua), which has often served [...]

FRENCH PRESENCE ON THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS MARKET 

A Japanese delegation will travel to France at the end of this month to examine a French proposal concerning the [...]

GUOANBU HAND IN BLACK OPERATIONS? 

Western experts on Asian intelligence believe a recent spate of scandals involving figures close to the Chinese agencies in the [...]

SHUFFLE OF MILITARY ATTACHES 

Following the creation of a new Japanese military intelligence agency [...]

BACKDROP TO A STATE VISIT 

There was a strange backdrop to French president Jacques Chirac's visit to China in mid-May. Indeed, the Chinese side prepared [...]

SENSITIVE EXPORTS: AN ERA OF "DECONTROL" 

The American government is very likely to completely modify its policy on sensitive technology transfers and its fight against proliferation of nuclear and chemical arms and ballistic missile technology before next June. It will probably also alter its doctrine on [. [...]

General René Imbot, Director of DGSE foreign intelligence from 1985 [...]