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Faithful right-hand man Zhao Leji to lead Xi Jinping's new anti-corruption drive

China
A new faction forms around Xi Jingping: the Tsinghua clique

The group of senior officials gradually emerging as the new clique around Xi Jingping have one thing in common, they all attended the president's alma mater, Tsinghua, in Beijing.

China
Xi's network of foreign police stations expands in Europe

Chinese police operate in at least 30 countries across four continents through a network of more than twenty foreign police stations that, as well as providing consular support to the Chinese diaspora, also conduct covert political operations.

China, France, Germany
Continental European analysts muscle into UK's China bailiwick

In France and Germany, several corporate intelligence firms are beginning to find their place by specialising in China. Until now, British firms had cornered this market.

China
Ex-President Jiang Zemin's clan targeted by fresh anti-corruption campaign

China's spymaster Zhao Leji has launched another anti-corruption crackdown to destroy the last remaining vestiges of former president Jiang Zemin's influence.

The Intelligence Gazette
GCHQ's cyber academy, Kochavi in Manama, Li Keqiang's succession, DGSI training

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Beijing via Manama and Paris.

ChinaXi Jinping's PM choices both from security world

United KingdomMoD staffs new Defence Cyber Academy

FranceDGSI to oversee inter-service intelligence training

Israel/BahrainTel Aviv seals security deal with Manama

FrancePro digital sovereignty lobby headed by former Huawei consultant

China, Serbia
China's CCCC brings BRI from Belgrade into European Union

After more than ten years of negotiations, Chinese giant CCCC has been given the green light for the rail line between Serbia and Hungary, Europe's biggest Belt and Road Initiative project, in a deal finalised during the recent Olympic Games.

China
Leo Group chief Wang Xiangrong, China's would-be Elon Musk, launches space activity

Wang Xiangrong, CEO of the Shanghai-based Leo Group, started out in water pumps but is now looking to make his mark in New Space, a sector dear to President Xi Jinping's heart.

China
Li and Zhang tasked with supervising Xi Jinping's new disciplinary drive

Li Wei and Zhang Xuan are to liaise between security service chiefs and provincial officials in charge of implementing the wide-ranging disciplinary programme aimed at rooting out and punishing those who fail to toe the Chinese Communist Party line.

China
People's Armed Police commander Wang Chunning takes up seat at head of Party's discipline campaign

Wang Chunning, commander of the People's Armed Police (PAP), has officially joined the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (CPLAC). The law enforcement body is currently overseeing a "rectification" programme aimed at rooting out corruption and disloyalty.

China
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
He Guoqiang pulls the strings

The head of the Chinese Communist Party's central disciplinary inspection commission played a key role in Bo Xilai's recent downfall.