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The Intelligence Gazette
London hikes spy budget, Ablyazov case in Senate, Vietnamese spy olympics, CNAM chair open, Guoanbu recommendations for BRICS

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

United KingdomGovernment winds intelligence budget back up

France/KazakhstanSenator Nathalie Goulet reopens oligarch Ablyazov affair

VietnamMilitary intelligence prepares in-house olympic games

FranceRace for criminology chair officially open

China/BRICSGuoanbu favours 12 countries with "partnership" status

China, South Africa, Taiwan
Beijing applies friendly pressure to get Taiwan's African embassies downgraded

Xi Jinping has greenlighted a strategy to further isolate Taiwan by persuading African states to downgrade the island's few diplomatic representations on the continent.

China
The future of the New Silk Roads, part 2: CCP prepares industrialisation plan

With the support of private companies and the Chinese diaspora, the Chinese Communist Party is identifying the industries and countries it wants to focus on for the next stage of the New Silk Roads project.

The Intelligence Gazette
Russian dissident in the Commons, Xi Jinping to visit Marseille, foreign investment in France, Russian intelligence review

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

United Kingdom Russian dissident to attend parliamentary hearing

FranceMarseille favourite to host Xi Jinping in spring

FranceForeign investment control measure confirmed

RussiaA new historical review for espionage fans