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Trump-Xi meeting looms with high stakes for Taiwan

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on 30 October 2025.
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on 30 October 2025. © Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP

Negotiations are underway to bring US President Donald Trump's planned visit to Beijing forward to late March instead of April, as initially planned. In China, delegations and departments are busy planning on several fronts, but Xi Jinping is pushing his sole priority: resolving the Taiwan issue.

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United States
US Congress looks to refocus Department of Homeland Security's intelligence efforts

Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, at the US-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona, on 4 February 2026.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, at the US-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona, on 4 February 2026. © Rebecca Noble/Reuters

While it focuses its attention and resources on its role in combating illegal immigration in the United States, the DHS, headed by Kristi Noem, also acts as an interface between the intelligence community and local authorities.

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Ukraine, United States
Culmen, an army of consultants to monitor US weapons in Kyiv

German soldiers unload the American-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) system in Jasionka (Rzeszów), Poland, on 23 January 2025.
German soldiers unload the American-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) system in Jasionka (Rzeszów), Poland, on 23 January 2025. © Omar Marques/Getty Images via AFP

To counter arms proliferation, the US State Department has hired a host of consultants, many of them from Culmen International, to monitor the use made of all the American weapons sent to Ukraine, whether in storage or in service.

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France
National Assembly warns of France's vulnerabilities in electronic warfare

From left: French MPs Didier Lemaire (Horizons) and Thierry Tesson (Rassemblement National), who recently authored a report on electronic warfare.
From left: French MPs Didier Lemaire (Horizons) and Thierry Tesson (Rassemblement National), who recently authored a report on electronic warfare. © Eliot Blondet/Abacapress.com/Reuters//Vincent Isore/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

Intelligence Online has gained access to an unpublished parliamentary report on electronic warfare, which plays a central role in electromagnetic intelligence. France has fallen far behind in this area, particularly in the naval sector.

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