United Kingdom
London gets ready for Huawei to dominate 5G

The Intelligence Gazette
Saudi GIP, Jeremy Wright, Hidalgo, Georgian National Security Council

Appointments, reforms, issues of concern: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up a miscellany of news items great and small from the global intelligence community. This week, they come from Paris, Saudi Arabia, London and Tbilisi.

Saudi Arabia/IraqThe General Intelligence Presidency reopens talks with the Anbar tribes to try to block Iran.

FranceIntelligence expert Floran Vadillo is advising French presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo.

United KingdomTelecommunications surveillance champion Jeremy Wright joins the ISC as it battles for greater powers

GeorgiaThe National Security Council gets a new chief of staff

United States
Washington takes on China and Huawei via telecommunications standards

Fearing Chinese intrusion in US communications systems, the US Congress is trying to influence international norms.

United Kingdom
Parliament hands Boris Johnson an ultimatum for making a decision over Huawei ban

The UK Parliament's intelligence committee has made it very clear that incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson will need to pick out which suppliers will be allowed to roll out the UK's 5G network without delay.

China, Europe
Europeans weigh up potential costs of Huawei ban

Broadsided by the US sanctions against Chinese electronics giant Huawei, European governments are trying to find a way to preserve their national security without sending the price of 5G networks through the roof.

United Kingdom
Government attentive to Huawei

Despite criticism from the Labour opposition on its handling of [...]

Europe, United States
Washington struggles to turn European allies against Huawei

European intelligence services have had a mixed reaction to Washington's war on Huawei, due to the lack of concrete evidence that the company is involved in spying for the Chinese authorities.

Europe, Japan
Tokyo looks to forge data security alliance with Europe

In recent meetings with European Commission officials, Japanese diplomats outlined Tokyo's hard-line stance against Chinese internet giants including Huawei and Alibaba.

United States
DoJ puts up cyber shield before taking on Huawei

Increasingly active in cyber espionage cases, including files implicating Chinese intelligence officials (IOL 817), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) [...]

France
Kaspersky, Huawei and USCYBERCOM together at FIC

The next International Cybersecurity Forum in Lille on January 22-23 [...]