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Spotlight | China, France, Japan, United Kingdom, United States
Intelligence services in West mobilise to block post Covid-19 Chinese investor activism

Western governments fear that China is going to have a field day investing in their strategic sectors as the economic impact of the Covid 19 pandemic kicks in. [...]

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Information wars in the Caucasus

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Israel
Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Spotlight | China, France, Japan, United Kingdom, United States
Intelligence services in West mobilise to block post Covid-19 Chinese investor activism

China, France, Germany, Japan
What China hopes to achieve through its massive new business offensive in Europe and Japan

Spotlight | United States
'Queen of Wall Street' Pelosi is top-flight Congressional trader

France
Paris banks on big data to counter foreign economic threats

Spotlight | Russia, UAE
Abu Dhabi makes noted investment in Deripaska's EN+

France
Tracfin's role in combating predatory foreign investment gets it a seat on the DGSE's joint technical platform

United Kingdom
MPs have reservations about National Security and Investment Bill

United States
Control Risks loses CFIUS expert

United Kingdom
Top experts advise Tom Tugendhat's China Research Group

Australia
Purdon leaves FCO for CyberCX

United Kingdom
China experts land key positions at FCO

United States
Haspel's silence on Jabri angers CIA's CT experts

United Kingdom
Miracl may soon be protected from foreign takeover

France, Russia
Macron plans Moscow trip

Japan
Security firm Alsok to be protected from foreign investment

France
At finance ministry, Courbe loses his short-lived number two

Japan
Eltes Intelligence protected by Tokyo

Japan
Cyber firm FFRI named to Japan's national security list

United States
Congress seeks to limit Chinese investment during pandemic

United Kingdom
Under Theresa May, Londongrad's oligarchs face testing times

United States
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London lays tax trap for oligarchs