Ambani is the key intermediary for the French military-industrial complex in India. ©Bloomberg FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
Peter Thiel has become Trump's principal technology adviser. ©Bloomberg UNITED STATES Published on 09/08/2017 Thiel is Trump's intelligence guru
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UNITED KINGDOMCHINA 02/05/2018 Clintons' former China expert launches new firm Free Chinese corporate intelligence specialist Andy Liu launched a new UK-based [...]
CHINAUNITED STATESRUSSIA 28/03/2018 Chinese giant CEFC's woes expose Russian partners CEFC, the Chinese partner of Oleg Deripaska's EN+, is under scrutiny in the US. Intelligence Online investigates. [...]
UNITED KINGDOMCHINA 14/03/2018 Davidson makes beeline for Beijing with Ensis Lord Neil Davidson has been busy of late promoting his new lobbying firm Ensis Strategic, which specialises in the Chinese [...]
CHINA 28/02/2018 Guoanbu chief Chen Wenqing protects One Belt One Road After a fierce battle with rival intelligence services, State Security, the Guoanbu, has been given responsibility for protecting Beijing's international mega-project. [...]
FRANCECHINA 14/02/2018 Yuan Ding, retired French prime ministers' relay in Shanghai Yuan Ding, the dean of the influential Chinese business school CEIBS, keeps a warm welcome for former French politicians looking for work in Chinese business circles. Intelligence Online investigates. [...]
Spotlight CHINAISRAEL 31/01/2018 Tel Aviv makes inroads into Chinese cyber-intelligence market Israeli investors and specialist companies are becoming increasingly involved in the Chinese intelligence and surveillance technology market. [...]
CHINAUNITED STATES 31/01/2018 Wendi Deng, an agent of influence rather than a spy Wendi Deng Murdoch, press magnate Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife, continues to obsess the Western intelligence world. Earlier this month, the Wall [...]
CHINA 31/01/2018 Psychological warfare takes shape in Xi'an As well as the Terracotta Army, which French President Emmanuel Macron got to see on his visit to China in [...]
Spotlight CHINA 17/01/2018 Beijing pursues plan to dominate GEOINT sector China intends to profit from the shake-up in the satellite imagery sector in Western countries to get its hands on American know-how and develop its own capacities. [...]
FRANCECHINA 17/01/2018 Macron scores top marks with Chinese intelligence Free President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Beijing on January 10 was prepared with great attention to detail by the Chinese intelligence [...]
CHINA 17/01/2018 Blackpanda: former US special forces target Manila The Hong-Kong based private security company Blackpanda is accelerating its [...]
CHINA 27/12/2017 You Quan, new boss of United Work Front department One of China's biggest security services, the United Front Work Department (UFWD, Zhongyang Tongyi Zhanxian Gongzuobu) is now being headed [...]
CHINA 27/12/2017 Great idea for Xmas gift : a spy USB cable courtesy of Amazon and Alibaba Equipped with a cheap microphone and GSM transmitter, nothing distinguishes it from a standard USB cable, but you can use it to eavesdrop permanently on a room or geolocate a car. [...]
CHINA 13/12/2017 Purge at online surveillance and propaganda services Lu Wei, the former head of the central steering committee of Chinese Cyberspace Administration (CCA) is the first ministerial level [...]
CHINA 13/12/2017 Beijing explores AI's use in intelligence China's announcement earlier this month that it was aiming to become the world's leader in artificial intelligence (AI) has profound [...]
CHINA 29/11/2017 Bridger Intelligence, lair of former CIA officers in Hong Kong Bridger Intelligence, the Hong Kong-based business intelligence firm founded by former CIA officer Josh Miller, has recently appointed Al Demeter [...]
CHINA 15/11/2017 Zhao Kezhi, a faithful ally of Xi becomes head of Gonganbu Zhao Kezhi, a faithful ally of President Xi Jinping, has been appointed to head the Ministry of Public Security, the [...]
CHINAUNITED STATES 15/11/2017 Microprocessors: Trump and Xi dodge the issue During Donald Trump's visit to China last week, President Xi [...]
CHINAKAZAKHSTAN 15/11/2017 Hong Kong case sheds light on Kazakh-Chinese connections A number of recent court cases in Hong Kong have targeted Dominic Lau, a key figure in Chinese-Kazakh state business dealings. [...]
CHINA 01/11/2017 Intelligence increasingly important in state apparatus At the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which ended recently, President Xi Jinping set out an ideological vision [...]
CHINA 18/10/2017 New Zealand's intelligence services caught out by "spy MP" Revelations in September that New Zealand MP Jian Yang was a member of the Communist Party and taught English to [...]
TAIWANCHINA 04/10/2017 Beijing and Taipei plan spy swap Zhou Hongxu, the Chinese student arrested on spying charges in Taiwan in March this year, must be more important than [...]
CHINA 04/10/2017 Wang Shaojun, invisible star of CCP congress The 62-year-old Wang Shaojun will be at the centre of security during the Chinese Communist Party's 19th congress this month. [...]
CHINA 20/09/2017 Wang Qishan in hot seat before PCC congress With the next big congress of the Chinese Communist Party due to get underway on October 18, speculation is growing [...]
CHINA 06/09/2017 Beijing's military think-tank scrutinizes Islamic State China's Military Sciences Academy hosts the military intelligence service, or [...]
