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Friday, 24 January, 2020

Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

Davos 2020

Swiss police suspect Davos plumbers of being Russian spies

Authorities suggest agents posed as tradesmen in order to bug world leaders

Monday, 13 January, 2020

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

US presses Johnson with dossier on Huawei security risk

‘Madness’ to use China telecoms group on UK 5G rollout, claim intelligence officials

Thursday, 9 January, 2020

Taiwan

Taiwan parties claim dirty tricks ahead of election

Alleged use of spy highlights fears of Chinese interference

Tuesday, 31 December, 2019

Taiwan

Taiwan adopts legislation to counter Chinese interference

Anti-infiltration law approved as threat from Beijing dominates presidential poll

Thursday, 12 December, 2019

Russian politics

Russia expels two German diplomats as rift over murder grows

Tit-for-tat move after Berlin criticised Moscow’s response to killing of Chechen rebel

Wednesday, 4 December, 2019

Germany

Germany accuses Russia of Chechen rebel murder

Two diplomats expelled as assassination in park threatens relations

Friday, 29 November, 2019

Australia

Chinese spy tales fuel Australian fears

Unexplained death of luxury car dealer stokes concern about Beijing’s espionage efforts

Thursday, 28 November, 2019

Office of Communications

Hong Kong ‘torture’ victim files Ofcom complaint against CGTN

Simon Cheng says Chinese state broadcaster aired ‘lies’ about him

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Monday, 25 November, 2019

Germany

Trump’s Germany envoy hits out at Berlin over Huawei

Richard Grenell slams suggestion US companies pose similar threat to Chinese

Monday, 25 November, 2019

Taiwan

Taiwan detains executives over China spying claims

Two held in wake of allegations in Australian media by Chinese fugitive

Monday, 25 November, 2019

Australia

Australia investigates Chinese spy ring allegation

Intelligence agency looks into claim Beijing tried to recruit parliamentary candidate

Friday, 15 November, 2019

Five men freed in Russia-Lithuania-Norway spy swap

Dramatic exchange between the three countries follows months of backroom diplomacy

Tuesday, 29 October, 2019

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

Germany spy chief warns against 5G role for Huawei

Bruno Kahl says Chinese telecoms group ‘cannot be trusted fully’

Monday, 14 October, 2019

Cyber warfare

Hybrid warfare: the new face of global competition

Businesses and governments targeted by cyber attacks, subversion and espionage

Monday, 23 September, 2019

Security Service UK

MI5 worried about Odeon cinemas’ links to Soviets during war

Newly released files reveal ties between spy and attempt to gauge public opinion in 1940

Tuesday, 17 September, 2019

Edward Snowden

US sues Edward Snowden over memoir

Wednesday, 7 August, 2019

Cyber warfare

Chinese hackers who work for both Beijing and personal gain identified

APT41 team allegedly targets political dissidents but also breaks into video games for cash

Tuesday, 23 July, 2019

ReviewNon-Fiction

How China’s cyber capabilities sparked a tech cold war

Roger Faligot’s history of spying in the Chinese Communist party highlights the turbocharged growth in the nation’s intelligence services

Monday, 22 July, 2019

Iran

Iran says it disrupted US spy ring operating inside country

Donald Trump calls claims false and hits out at ‘badly failing’ regime

Sunday, 7 July, 2019

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

Huawei CVs show close links with military, study says

Findings to fuel debate over whether group’s 5G networks pose security risk

Wednesday, 3 July, 2019

Russia

Secrecy surrounds Russian submarine incident

Moscow refuses to reveal details two days after fire killed 14 sailors

Friday, 28 June, 2019

Russian politics

May lambasts Russia’s ‘despicable’ behaviour

UK’s outgoing PM criticises ‘irresponsible’ activity during frosty talks on fringes of G20

Wednesday, 19 June, 2019

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Russia should hand over MH17 suspects for trial

Moscow refuses to extradite citizens despite strong evidence of crimes

Friday, 31 May, 2019

US intelligence threats to UK ‘not realistic’, say spies

Co-operation for 75 years more important than ‘hamfisted’ warnings

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