Fudan University

Belarus, China
Beijing ramps up soft power push in Belarusian universities

Academic collaboration between Minsk and Beijing is going from strength to strength. With exchange programmes proving insufficient to persuade Belarusian students to embrace the Chinese worldview, Belarus's universities are now working upstream to shape students' opinions in line with the Communist Party narrative.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI, Unrest at CIA, Taiwan and the CCP, OSINT at Quai d'Orsay

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

FranceDGSI hiring diplomatic adviser

United StatesUnrest at the CIA's OSINT office

ChinaCCP's plan to integrate Kinmen and Matsu islands moves forward

FranceQuai d'Orsay beefs up OSINT capacity

China, Europe
China mandates academics to win over Europe

The Chinese Communist Party wants to make the most of the rift forming across the Atlantic and is sending research groups to restore its reputation in Europe.

The Agencies' Gazette
Counterspy heads DGSI economic unit, CIA loses China expert, Spy film prefigured DGSE HQ move, China's 'wolf warriors' return

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

FranceCounter-espionage expert takes charge at DGSI economic security unit

United StatesCIA loses top China expert

FranceFrench 2008 spy film prefigured DGSE's future move to Fort Neuf

China‘Wolf warrior' diplomacy makes a comeback

Spotlight | Australia, China
China's Guoanbu keeps control in case of Australian spy who almost got away

Intelligence Online looks at the case of former Chinese spy Yang Hengjun who sought refuge in Australia before being arrested by Beijing and given a suspended death sentence - confirming that a new passport offers no protection for Chinese nationals accused of treason.

China
Shanghai clique gathers intelligentsia around Xi

Coordinated by Politburo Standing Committee members Wang Huning and Ding Xuexiang, the new Shanghai faction is trying to extinguish the influence of Jiang Zemin's protégés from the world of academia and the military.

Russia
Russian financial intelligence service looks to recruit new generation of analysts

As it is gradually pushed out of international financial surveillance organisations, Russia's financial intelligence service Rosfinmonitoring is counting on its connections with local and Central Asian universities to provide new recruits and keep up its foreign partnerships.

China
China sets up a cyber-Hogwarts to train its future cyber defence wizards

The Chinese government wants to have at its disposal cyber specialists other than those from the hacking world that forged its existing cyber services. To help it achieve this, it has enlisted the help of the big high-tech groups but is also carrying out major development programmes at its universities - and this in collaboration with foreign establishments of the highest reputation.

China
Christoph Nedophil Wang, academic promoter of China's new silk roads

With their persuasive strategy of infrastructure and new tech partnerships, the government-run Belt and Road Initiative research centres in Beijing and Shanghai confirm China's growing interest in building its position in the Middle East.