The Agencies' Gazette
Voatz vs Minsk, Russkiy Mir, biometric controls in Israel, Wang Yi in DC

China
Chinese Communist Party uses CICC investment bank to boost New Silk Roads

Two new internal reports, written under the direction of the State Council, have laid the foundations for Xi Jinping's new economic strategy.

The Tech Telegraph
France's DGSE turns to LLM, US cracks down on cyber industry, Preligens' Rennes changes

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Paris French intelligence service focuses on Large Language Models

Washington Congress ponders cyber-intelligence sanctions

Rennes Preligens restructures ahead of funding round

Spotlight | China, United States
US intel still struggling over its China strategy

As Washington's major focus, China is mobilising ever more of the US intelligence community's resources, leading to significant shifts within it.

Belarus
Belarus KGB steps up attacks on dissidents' armed wing

Minsk's intelligence services have launched a barrage of increasingly sophisticated attacks on Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's government in exile, notably targeting her "defence minister", the KGB's bête noire.

Belarus, Europe, Ukraine, United States
US lobbying giant APCO to help Ukraine-based initiative pushing for Kyiv and Minsk's EU integration

The US lobbying firm has been commissioned by a new Brussels-based NGO, Center for a European Future, to help prepare the ground for Minsk and Kyiv's EU integration. The think-tank is led by an experienced PR professional with strong ties in Ukraine but few contacts in Minsk.

Russia, Ukraine
Russian influence activists got busy behind recognition of Donbas republics

The champions of Russia's protection of its "compatriots" - Russian-speaking descendants of the USSR that Moscow is trying to reconquer or keep in its cultural fold - were going all-out to support Moscow's latest moves in Ukraine.