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INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

TO: All Strategic Intelligence Forum members

DATE: 15 December 2006

The Strategic Intelligence Forum is part of the Intelligence Research group, and as a member of the Strategic Intelligence Forum I am very pleased to send you from time to time a selection of reports published recently by Intelligence Research Ltd that I consider to be of particular STRATEGIC significance.

Links to these - and other - reports can also be found in the Strategic Intelligence Monitoring Centre, which you may access on a 24/7 basis by going to www.stratintforum.com, logging in as a member, and selecting the Strategic Intelligence Monitoring Centre option.

Please find below my latest selection of Intelligence Research articles:

1.  CHINA-US TIES TO GROW CHILLY, NOT COLD - China Watch Weekly Briefing, 15 December 2006

SUMMARY: It has been a general assumption of this service that a Cold War-style competition between the United States and China is unlikely because of the significant differences that exist between early-21st Century China and the Soviet Union of the mid-20th Century. We continue to maintain that view, but the fourth annual report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission - published last month - suggests that a less-than-friendly rivalry between the US and China is inevitable...

Link to full article: : http://www.asiaint.com/arl/arl12417.asp

2.  MEDDLING IN BANGLADESH - AsiaInt Political & Strategic Review, December 2006

SUMMARY: Bangladesh goes to the polls in January amid an extraordinary amount of foreign attention. Emissaries from across the Western world and beyond have descended on the country with one apparent goal: to prevent the ruling party gaining power for another five years...

Link to full article: http://www.asiaint.com/arl/arl12383.asp

With best regards

JKC de Courcy
Chairman
Strategic Intelligence Forum

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