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US-Mexico cooperation, SISSE and security alerts, Westminster anger, Beijing vs. Shen Yun dance troupe

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United StatesState Department seeks to strengthen cooperation with Mexico in fight against cartels

FranceSISSE handled 750 security alerts in 2025

United KingdomMilitary intelligence overhaul sparks anger and discontent in Parliament

ChinaBeijing's offensive against Shen Yun in Europe

China
You Quan, new boss of United Work Front department

One of China's biggest security services, the United Front Work Department (UFWD, Zhongyang Tongyi Zhanxian Gongzuobu) is now being headed [...]

China
High-ranking cyberspace officials sacked

Chen Zhimin was sacked as head of cybersecurity at the Public Security ministry, or Gonganbu, last week. In his early [...]

China
Xi Jinping revives anti-Falun Gong Bureau 610

Chinese president Xi Jinping recently gave his personal go-ahead for a fast track revival of Bureau 610 (Yao Yi Ling), [...]

China
Meng Hongwei

Meng Hongwei, the new head of Interpol (see here) and [...]

China
Xi's securocrats settle in

Xi Jinping's National Security Commission or Zhongguo Guojia Anquan Weiyuanhui, is beginning to take shape. The secretary of the body [...]

China
Xi’s master-spies wait in wings

Eight months away from Chinese leader Hu Jintao’s handover to Xi Jinping, the latter’s clan, known as the "new Shanghai [...]

China
Chinese "Guantanamo" discovered

Like the United States, it has emerged that China also operates a prison for terrorism suspects.

China
Guoanbu and Bureau 610 clash

There is growing rivalry between China's state security and the anti-subversive Bureau 610.

China
Anti-Minority Task Force

The Communist Party's central committee has formed a unit dedicated to counter-insurrection.

China
Guoanbu’s Battle in Bratislava

Highly present in the big Chinese community in Slovakia, China’s [...]

China
Wider Remit for Military Security

On the morning of July 30, the security department that answers to the Peoples Liberation Army’s political department launched an [...]

China
Agencies Prepare to Strike Back

During a crisis meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's politburo last week, the overall chief of Chinese security services, Zhou [...]

China
A Penetrating Look at Chinese Intelligence

On Feb. 28 French journalist Roger Faligot will publish a history of Chinese intelligence from 1921 to the present day [...]

China
Wahaha's Backers Against Danone

China's Wahaha group is engaged in a courtroom battle with its former partner, the French agribusiness giant Danone. Wahaha has a lot of friends in China's security establishment.

Australia
Guoanbu Defectors Stir Suspicion

In less than two years, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has found itself dealing with the cases of three [...]

Germany
Identifying the Chinese "Fish"

German intelligence agencies seized the occasion of the second World Uighur Congress (WUC) in Munich in late November to identify Guoanbu agents.

China
Thaw with the Vatican

Several western intelligence agencies are watching changes in the balance of power in China between the clandestine Catholic Church and [...]

China
"Gold Shield" Vs "Flock of Pigeons"

The "Gold Shield" operation launched by the Gonganbu in April has hobbled the Internet in China.