Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

China
China builds team to develop strategies to thwart post-Taiwan invasion sanctions

The appointment of Gao Xiang as head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences confirms of President Xi Jinping's goal to take control of Taiwan. If successful in this, he anticipates it would throw China into a long period of economic isolation.

China, Ukraine
China and Ukraine's rapprochement hits road bump

After two months of negotiations and the drafting of a clarified road-map, China's President Xi Jingping has finally decided to hold off on a telephone conversation with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Agencies' Gazette
CIS, UK counter state threats bill, Palestine-Algeria

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 Paris via Moscow.

Palestine-AlgeriaMaster spy Noureddine Mekri takes a stab at Palestinian reconciliation

United KingdomChristine Lee affair sparks Tom Tugendhat's push for draft bill on counter state threats

Russia'Compatriot' think-tank receives award

China
Military supplier Tellhow gets boost from state-owned defence contractors

Its subsidiary Tellhow Sci-tech, which makes military communications equipment, also plans to increase R&D operations.

China
Guoanbu changes tune on Taiwan because of Trump

Donald Trump’s volte-face on Taiwan - first recognizing its independence and then later acknowledging Beijing’s "One China" policy - has [...]

China | Beijing
Xia Yong

Director of China's National Administration for the Protection of State [...]

China | Beijing
Purge in Party Intelligence Unit

A leak to South Korean intelligence has cost several officials in the Central Committee's international department their jobs.

United States | washington
An Intelligence Ombudsman

John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), seems to be sparing no effort to improve the quality of American [...]

China | beijing
Down to the Economic Nitty-Gritty

China's State Council Research Office (Guowuyuan Yanjiushi) has dropped its function as a general intelligence agency to devote itself exclusively to seeking out key commercial and economic information.