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China/Europe/Taiwan/United States : Beijing toughens stance on Taiwan and Hong Kong's non-US foreign supporters

Tue, 23/06/2026 - 06:00
US President Donald Trump's ambiguity on the Taiwan issue has prompted Chinese leader Xi Jinping to embark on a quiet [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United Kingdom/United States : Washington beefs up London embassy staff regardless of Trump-Starmer spat

Tue, 23/06/2026 - 06:00
Donald Trump may currently have issues with the departing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stating that he is "very disappointed" [...]
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Qatar/United Kingdom : Qatar sovereign fund summons corporate spooks for briefing on collapsed tech group

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
The Qatar Investment Authority is due to host financial investigators in Doha this week for a briefing on the collapse of Builder.ai, the app-building start-up for which QIA led a $250m funding round in 2023, Intelligence Online has learned. The [...]
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China/France/United Kingdom/United States : UK Chinese embassy, US riot support, GAO management lessons, Xi's manoeuvres, Franco-Vietnamese vulnerability

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
UK/China – Beijing strengthens London defence missionThe Chinese embassy in London has in recent weeks welcomed a new defence attaché [...]
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Europe/France/Russia : French police officer deemed too close to Russia to join Frontex

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
The Paris administrative court handed down some weeks ago a ruling regarding a French police officer looking to join Frontex [...]
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Cambodia/France/Thailand : The 'colonial' maps playing a role in Franco-Cambodian-Thai diplomacy

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
Cambodia is planning to send a diplomatic mission to Paris from June 20 to 28 to consult the French foreign [...]
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United States : Pentagon poised to take over National Intelligence University

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
As the National Intelligence University (NIU) prepares to close its doors for good on 1 July, the future of the [...]
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China/France : Paris orders Thales to halt cooperation with Peking University

Mon, 22/06/2026 - 06:00
As part of its export control measures, Paris has finally put a stop to further cooperation between the French electronics group Thales and the highly regarded Peking University.
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Qatar : After Gaza, Qatari 'dealmaker' Ali Al-Thawadi eyes second win with Iran file

Fri, 19/06/2026 - 06:00
The atmosphere was tense enough, ahead of planned peace talks this Friday 19 June at Switzerland's Bürgenstock Resort. The short-notice [...]
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France : DGSE's clandestine Action Service hunts for new post-presidential chief

Fri, 19/06/2026 - 06:00
In one of its most eagerly-awaited appointments next year, France's DGSE foreign intelligence service is poised to chose a new [...]
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Belgium/France/Vietnam : Hanoi uses diplomacy and its 'united front' to tap into Europe's AI and nuclear tech

Fri, 19/06/2026 - 06:00
Vietnam's embassies in London, Paris and Brussels have been hard at work updating their lists of experts and intellectuals from [...]
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China : Beijing beefs up strategic coastline surveillance

Fri, 19/06/2026 - 06:00
A number of unusual job offers have cropped up since late May at China's ecology and environment ministry and at [...]
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United States/Uzbekistan : Little-known US group buys Uzbek state-owned telecom firm for $350m

Fri, 19/06/2026 - 06:00
Earlier this month Uzbekistan announced that it had awarded a $350m privatisation deal for one of its state-owned telecommunications companies, [...]
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UAE : US and UK consultants stranded in UAE for months amid money laundering probe

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
The Sharjah Public Prosecutor's office last month told more than 20 expatriate finance professionals named in a money laundering probe that they had no case to answer, prompting expectations that the investigation will be dropped, Intelligence Online has heard. It is [...]
Categories: Afrique, Defence`s Feeds

Belgium/China/European Union : European Commission beefs up security in face of China threat

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
For regular visitors to the Berlaymont – the large, cross-shaped 60s building where the European Commission is headquartered in Brussels [...]
Categories: Afrique, Defence`s Feeds

Ukraine/United States : AeroVironment puts new Switchblade drone to the test with SBU's Alpha unit

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
Teams from US drone manufacturer AeroVironment have for months been travelling to Ukraine to test their loitering munitions in the [...]
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France : DGSE locks down top positions until presidential

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu once more hammered home the point when he met with French political parties on 11 June: [...]
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China/Hungary/Serbia : Beijing's Belt and Road 'militias' to be deployed in Serbia, Hungary and Poland

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
After much planning, China is finally poised to deploy its long-planned New Silk Road ‘militias' (Belt & Road Initiative, BRI) [...]
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United States : Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI cuts also targeted counternarcotics

Thu, 18/06/2026 - 06:00
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)'s Counternarcotics Executive (CE) role has been abolished as part of efforts [...]
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France/UAE : Behind a French-Emirati rapprochement over Rafale's future

Wed, 17/06/2026 - 06:00
The conspicuous absence of Faisal al-Bannai, the powerful head of UAE defence conglomerate EDGE, came as a big disappointment for [...]
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