In a victory for the Trump administration, the British government has decided to ban technology built by Huawei, the global telecom giant, based in China. The British decision heals a rift that was splitting the two biggest partners in the Five Eyes signal intelligence alliance. The Five Eyes is the world’s largest intelligence collection enterprise,...
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Pursuing Peace, Moon Promotes One Spy Chief and Picks Another
South Korean president Moon Jae-in has shuffled his security advisers in a bid to keep alive his campaign to formally end the Korean war and denuclearize the peninsula. While Washington-centric pundits focus on the erratic diplomacy of President Trump and the brinksmanship of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Moon is the most impressive of the three...
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India’s First Spymaster: R.N. Kao’s Life in New Spy Thriller Web Series
Binge Watch News and India Today report the story of India’s first spymaster will be coming to screens of the world’s second most populous nation. The Research and Analysis Wing has been in the news because of a recent border skirmish between India and China. Kao was a remarkable character who made his reputation in...
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Trump’s Trade Adviser Repeats Unsubstantiated COVID Theory
First it was former MI6 director Richard Dearlove espousing a theory about the origins of the COVID virus that has no foundation in fact. Now it’s White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. ‘Navarro says on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it remains unclear how the virus started and “until we get some information about...
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Indonesia’s Intelligence Service Is Coming Out to Counter COVID19
Amid the COVID pandemic, Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is asserting itself in unusual ways. Writing in The Diplomat, Tangguh Chairil, a lecturer in security studies, says BIN’s role has expanded in the last three months. BIN’s role is to conduct contact tracing to track the spread of COVID-19, as part of the early warning...