The Agencies' Gazette
1st RPIMa's new boss, London and disinformation, Berlin and Syrian services, KMT leader in Beijing

The Agencies' Gazette
SGDSN anniversary watch, ODNI military adviser, Kyiv's Africa plan

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

FranceBespoke watches for SGDSN's 120th anniversary

USTulsi Gabbard's new military adviser is a Marine

UkraineA plan for Kyiv's return to Africa

Spotlight | United States
Iran war exposes vulnerabilities in US counterterrorism in light of security priorities shift

The switch in Washington's security priorities, marked by a pivot to counternarcotics and Latin America, has largely been at the expense of the fight against terrorism.

Spotlight | China, Taiwan, United States
Trump-Xi meeting looms with high stakes for Taiwan

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.

China, Taiwan, United States
KMT leader Cheng Li-wun gambles on meetings with Xi and Trump

Taiwan's opposition leader is lobbying hard to meet Xi Jinping before Donald Trump's state visit to Beijing in April. Fearing that an agreement on the island will be sealed without her party, Cheng Li-wun is active on all fronts to persuade Beijing and Washington of the KMT's pivotal role in the negotiations.

China, Taiwan
Cheng Li-wun, the Kuomintang's bid to reassure Beijing

Cheng Li-wun's troubled election as head of Taiwan's Kuomintang Chinese nationalist party has provided Beijing's intelligence services with a stable interlocutor while avoiding the party's implosion. Xi Jinping has agreed to meet her.