Horrible.
"The Trump administration agreed to send around $35 million in military aid to a Central African military unit previously accused of war crimes...[including] subjecting detainees to beatings and drownings and torturing some detainees to death."
wsj.com/world/africa/trumps-…
An unfamiliar company gets easier to understand when you can see who supplies it and who it works with.
Lazlo maps those commercial relationships back to public sources.
A starting point for deciding where to look next.
lazlointelligence.com
Only one country has joined both the US-led Pax Silica initiative and China's World AI Cooperation Organization.
Kazakhstan, the Switzerland of AI tech.
apnews.com/article/9974a3e5d…
Has anyone tried Lazlo Intelligence yet?
Find out who you're really doing business with.
lazlointelligence.com
Biotech is in Treasury's proposed expansion of outbound investment controls.
The national-security debate over technology keeps reaching into new industries. Founders and investors in any tech field should pay attention.
home.treasury.gov/news/press…
This kind of story sounds sort of boring, but it shows how instrumental China is becoming in critical infrastructure around the world.
You can't get much more critical than water.
reuters.com/business/environ…
Which one do you prefer when testing out a new SaaS product? Regardless of industry or software type - on average.
Freemium = limited features, forever
Free trial = full features, limited time
67%Freemium
33%Free trial
3 votes • Final resultsIn 2023, a former Samsung executive was accused of stealing factory designs to build a rival plant in Xi'an.
Now Samsung is upgrading its Xi'an plant to make more advanced chips. What has changed in how it protects that technology?
reuters.com/world/china/sams…
ChatGPT can't create images of trade between countries because it is too sensitive.
I guess visualizing how the global economy operates is triggering for some people? #chatgpt
"Even neutral concepts like trade or tech export between countries are often flagged"
Ben Forney retweeted
Exclusive: Chinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions reut.rs/3VBIQLr
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South Korea telecoms expert Song Iick-ho joins Chinese uni on US risk list
scmp.com/news/china/science/…
This week, The Spy Hunter newsletter tracks the projects, partners, and publications of the Seven Sons of National Defense from the past month.
#china #academia #defense #research #aerospace #AI
thespyhunter.substack.com/p/…
Ben Forney retweeted
🚨 Governments remain ignorant to the threat posed by dependence on 🇨🇳 cellular IoT modules in our critical national infrastructure
Warns Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our #ChinaObservatory in @fDiIntelligence
bit.ly/48gb8Cz
"Over the five years through 2023, Taiwanese authorities launched 110 investigations trade secret leaks, up 31% from the previous five years."
asia.nikkei.com/business/tec…
Oh China Daily, you are a funny one.
"In a seminar held in Beijing on Saturday, scholars emphasized the importance of maintaining the post-World War II international order and respecting territorial sovereignty."🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
chinadaily.com.cn/a/202508/2…
Huawei is deepening its connections to China's PLA-linked research institutes with an incubation center at Beihang University.
cctime.com/html/2025-9-16/17…
“Last week, Kim Jong Un joined the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Russian President Vladimir Putin at a military parade in Beijing, signalling these countries' tacit acceptance of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and treatment of its citizens.” bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqdz…
Everyone saw the parade, but the real story was off stage: 22 Russia-China deals in energy, space, media & more, many tied to sanctioned entities.
This week, The Spy Hunter tracks how new #China and #Russia projects are sidestepping sanctions.
thespyhunter.substack.com/p/…
🚨 New deep dive from The Spy Hunter newsletter:
China’s Torch Center is more than an innovation hub. It’s a state-run pipeline linking R&D, industry, and Party objectives with global reach and high risks for foreign partners.
Let’s unpack. 🧵
12/ 💡 Bottom line: The Torch Center is not a neutral incubator. It’s an innovation-to-infiltration pipeline, tightly linked to China’s political and military agenda. Foreign firms engaging with it risk far more than they realize.
To read more, check out this week's issue of The Spy Hunter on Substack.
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