Intelligence
The First Draft Is No Longer Theirs
At roughly 4am on 30 July, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile came down in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, Poland, after Polish radar lost track of...
Ceuta Migration Crisis: Why Chinese Analysts Are Looking at Mossad
The extraordinary migration crisis that unfolded in Spain's North African city of Ceuta in late July and early August 2026 has quickly developed into...
Why Chinese Intelligence Believes Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood Are Reshaping North Africa
Intelligence circles in Beijing, specifically the Ninth Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (the de facto Chinese intelligence agency), view the Muslim...
How China Uses U.S. and Israel Protests to Advance Its Global Strategy
Chinese authorities are monitoring the demonstrations against US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewing them as a reflection of the erosion...
Why China Is Watching Mossad’s New Chief With Growing Alarm
Chinese intelligence and defense agencies are assessing the performance of the new Mossad chief, Roman Gofman, with great caution and interest, considering him a...
Two Months After the UFO Files Release: What We’ve Learned — and What’s Still Hidden
For decades, the U.S. government's UFO files sat in classified vaults, locked away from public view. Researchers filed FOIA requests. Journalists pushed for answers....
China, Egypt, and Iran: Challenging U.S. Military Presence in the Gulf
The Chinese strategy employs research and intelligence institutions working to foster closer ties between Iranian national security institutions and the Egyptian military, aiming to...
China, the IRGC, and Tehran’s New Power Centers
China is adopting a pragmatic approach to its post-war relationship with Iran, attempting to balance maintaining its strategic and economic interests with Tehran, including...
China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools
Chinese PSCs are state-adjacent actors embedded in China’s overseas economic expansion, particularly under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), generating new arenas of US–China...
Chinese Intelligence Targets Organized Crime in Egypt
Chinese intelligence and security agencies view the crackdown on influence thuggery and the arrest of Sabry Nakhnoukh by Egyptian security forces in June 2026...