GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE

New PM Li Qiang further boosts Zhejiang faction in CCP  Free

This group of loyal Xi Jinping's elites, formed from the time the president was CCP secretary for the region south of Shanghai, continues to gain ground in the key areas of the economy, security and propaganda.

US Department of Commerce struggles with security glitches amid global economic battle 

As the US wakes up to its counter-espionage and security gaps, which seem to be particularly prevalent within the Department of Commerce, its new risk management office is having to deal with strategic economic threats and the department's inability to move on from its troubled past in the field.

Washington counts on fledgling Negev Forum to drive Middle East security 

Keen to see the establishment of a Middle East security organisation, the US is looking to the Negev Forum to fulfill that role, despite the scant progress it has made thus far.

Information warfare: Washington provides funds to counter Chinese messaging in Italy 

The US State Department has given Italy's Istituto Affari Internazionali think tank financial help to contribute to the debate in that country on the risks posed by disinformation from the Chinese Communist Party. That was only the first operation in a wider-ranging US campaign to come in Europe.

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Belgium poised to ratify new telecoms data collection legislation 

Intelligence Online has had access to the draft memorandum on telecommunications operators' sharing of client data and metadata with the relevant intelligence and government services. It is intended to bring Belgian law into line with the needs of those services and the decisions of the European Court of Justice.

Western researchers, business leaders set for closed-door confabs with CCP at CASS and CDF 

During two events scheduled for late March, European and American researchers and business leaders will meet in Beijing to discuss political and economic issues related to Xi Jinping's new term in office.

Leak spares key figures of Kremlin's Belarus policy 

A document leaked by a consortium of journalists has shed light on some of the Russian networks in charge of increasing Moscow's influence in Minsk. But there are also a handful of individuals shaping and reshaping Russia's Belarus policy left unmasked and still working from behind the scenes.