Spotlight | China
Secret seminars for Chinese Communist Party future leaders

The Intelligence Gazette
DGSI and transnational repression, Signal and US diplomats in Kyiv, DGSE flooded with CVs, Xi Jinping culls bonuses

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

FranceDGSI fights transnational repression in five languages

United StatesUS Embassy in Kyiv slammed for use of Signal

FranceDGSE wades through 900 CVs a week to fill vacancies

ChinaXi Jinping pulls rug on finance, tech and defence bonuses

China, United States
Guoanbu steers talks as China seeks path towards compromise on nuclear parity with US

In addition to the renewed engagement between Chinese and American academics after a five-year hiatus, the CCP wants to hold informal nuclear arms talks with the US. They could be a step towards new official discussions between the two.

Spotlight | China
China's State Security tightens grip on universities

Under Xi Jinping's third mandate the world of academia has to comply and restructure more than ever - and first serve the goals of the Chinese Communist Party. The Ministry of State Security has been tasked to keep a watch on campuses.

China
Xi Jinping forms new security clique to stamp out corruption with iron fist

The Chinese leader has entrusted several members of the CCP's new security faction with the challenging task of ensuring the anti-corruption campaign is strictly implemented, especially within those state structures over which Xi Jinping believes he does not yet have full control.

China
Xi Jinping to bring PLA political commissars to heel

In his third term, China's president wants to consolidate his hold over his country's military apparatus. To regain control over the politics of the People's Liberation Army, Xi has chosen to drastically rein in political commissars, who have now been relegated to merely executing the party's will.

China
Xi's network of foreign police stations expands in Europe

Chinese police operate in at least 30 countries across four continents through a network of more than twenty foreign police stations that, as well as providing consular support to the Chinese diaspora, also conduct covert political operations.