China
Guoanbu chief Chen Wenqing protects One Belt One Road

The Agencies' Gazette
PKK leaders, DGSI, SCO, DoS in Georgia, France-Ukraine

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, from Sinjar to Paris via Shanghai, Kyiv, Washington and Tbilisi.

IraqPKK renews high command's mandate and reaffirms strategic priorities

FranceDGSI's role in counterterrorism secured

Russia/ChinaBeijing counts on Russia to promote SCO

USA/GeorgiaWashington confirms its commitment to Tbilisi

France/UkraineFlorence Parly sticks to low estimate on Paris's Ukraine spending

Russia
Sergei Korolev to carry Shanghai Pact's anti-terrorism flag

Russia has appointed rising intelligence star Sergei Korolev to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, as it renews its membership with the regional alliance and ramps up efforts to counter various groups it qualifies as terrorist or extremist.

China
Cheng Guoping orchestrates security cooperation with Afghanistan

Beijing's top security diplomat Cheng Guoping, a former liaison officer for the Ministry of State Security in Moscow, is keeping a handle on potential terrorist threats along the country's border with Afghanistan.

China
Intelligence officials join Beijing's new discipline office

Officials from China's intelligence agencies have joined Xi Jinping's new Education and Rectification Pilot Office (ERPO), tasked with ensuring adherence [...]

China
Guoanbu, Gonganbu at heart of Hong Kong's new security agency

Top officials from China's Ministry of State Security (Guoanbu) and Ministry of Public Security (Gonganbu) will help run the new [...]

China
New security task force adds senior Gonganbu official

Lin Rui, a Public Security (Gonganbu) deputy minister and head of the ministry's cybersecurity department, attended June 8 meeting of [...]

China
People's Armed Police to work more closely with intelligence services

The People's Armed Police (PAP) will be required to set [...]

China
Wang moves up to top CCP law enforcement body

Wang Renhua, who was appointed secretary of the Central Military [...]

China
Xiangke, Xi's new defence ace

Beijing is merging two parapublic defence companies into a single giant as part of its Military-Civil Fusion strategy.

China
Guoanbu and Gonganbu barricade Beijing

Ahead of celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the [...]

China
Beijing pursues security diplomacy in Central Asia

Beijing is pushing forward with its security diplomacy in countries [...]

China, United States
Dan Coats enjoined to monitor the new Silk Road

The Congressional US-China Economic & Security Review Commission (USCC) is [...]

China, France
Jiangsu, Guoanbu's top spot for capturing foreign technology

The Chinese ministry of state security's use of Safran's Jiangsu site as an espionage outpost has now been exposed by the American intelligence services, with help from their French counterparts.

China
Chinese State Security steps up control of Peking University

Qiu Shuiping, long-serving head of the Beijing bureau of Ministry of State Security (MSS), is appointed CCP secretary at elite college.

Europe
Paris and Berlin mull barriers to Chinese economic spying

The German intelligence services are increasingly active against corporate intelligence-gathering by Beijing in Europe. Paris is keen to follow suit.

China
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
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 [...]

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, India
Maldives the next hot spot

Mohammed Nasheed , the ex-president of the Maldives who has been in exile in Sri Lanka since August after a [...]