Chapter 952: Commonwealth's Presence

Britain is one of the closest allies of the United States. Not to mention the complicated "conjugate father-son" relationship between the two sides, at least in Europe, Britain is very important to the United States.

The cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States in the intelligence system is also the closest. For example, some actions of the CIA in Britain are often reported to the British intelligence system to avoid misunderstandings.

Of course, there will also be some actions that will not be reported, and these actions are often targeted at the British...

The reason why the team led by Mikhail will focus on these people this time is because they appeared in London, and it is very likely that they are targeting Duke Devonshire.

You must know that the most important job of Barron's intelligence system is to protect himself and everyone in his system. This intelligence system was originally established to trace the heavy losses caused to the Devonshire family. A member of the "London Star" fraud gang.

And before that, his intelligence system also discovered signs that the CIA had conducted an investigation into Barron. The intelligence investigation and transmission paths involved in this matter that were discovered at that time have also been under the monitoring of his intelligence system.

And these people who came to London this time used some of these resources - this was the main reason why the team led by Mikhail confirmed that the other party was from the CIA.

Since this is the case, they will naturally monitor these people closely to prevent anything that endangers Duke Devonshire from happening.

However, during the surveillance process, two of these "uninvited guests" briefly disappeared from their surveillance sight for almost half a day under the cover of others.

Because they need to prevent the other party from discovering their surveillance, some actions will be restricted. It is not surprising that such a situation occurs.

But for Mikhail, based on his intuition, he believed that these people would be involved in something important, so he hoped to understand all the actions of the other party without leaving any omissions.

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"There are many French NGOs (non-profit organizations) that are active in West Africa, and they will definitely not make a splash in Colo..."

Through the CSIB (Colo Security Intelligence Bureau), Nigel has a good knowledge of some French actions in West Africa.

Indeed, as he said, in Colo, the infiltration of French NGOs did not have much effect. After all, in addition to the Security Intelligence Service itself being very wary of such things, the African branch of the Prosperous Earth Foundation was established In Colo, in this way, it is difficult for those NGOs to oppose the Prosperous Earth Foundation.

You must know that the major TV, radio, newspapers and other media in Kolo are in the hands of the West African Media Group. With the cooperation of the West African Media Group, the Prosperous Earth Foundation uses Kolo as its base to radiate West Africa and even the entire Africa. How can Will NGOs from other countries, including France, be allowed to develop and grow here?

A few local people in Colo who have connections with NGOs with French background, such as certain scholars, lawyers and businessmen, have been included in the list monitored by the Security Intelligence Service, and they have no chance to cause trouble.

However, some French NGOs have had a certain impact in countries such as Mali and Niger. After all, in some countries in West Africa, coups often occur, and then military governments come to power. Some of the policies of these military governments are often quite radical and can easily cause domestic problems. Backlash from certain groups.

So among these, there is naturally room for NGOs to make trouble.

According to CSIB intelligence, the Malian government was also aware of the actions of those French NGOs and lodged protests with France through some channels.

But France did not pay too much attention to it and just used high-sounding excuses such as "freedom of speech" to get over it.

Speaking of which, what the Prosperous Earth Foundation is doing in West Africa is not fundamentally different from those of French NGOs.

However, the difference is that the actions of the Prosperous Earth Foundation are far less radical, and now they mainly carry out activities in countries such as the West African Free Trade Area and Nigeria that appear to have a positive effect on society, such as Generally speaking, some exchange activities carried out in the fields of medical and health care, education and academics will not arouse the objection of the local government.

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This time Barron came to Colo, apparently to attend Colo's competition for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The Commonwealth Games is a comprehensive sports meeting held every four years in the Commonwealth countries.

The Games were first held in 1930, when Britain was still an empire on which the sun never set, and the games at that time were called the British Empire Games.

The name of the Games was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954. After World War II, as the two major powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, tacitly supported the "national liberation movement", they actually dismembered and dispossessed the old imperialist colonies such as Britain and France, including Australia, Canada and other former British colonies have gradually become a "Federation", but Britain still insists on calling itself the "British Empire"...

Then, in 1970, it was changed to the British Commonwealth Games, and in 1978, it was changed to the current Commonwealth Games...

It is true that England is becoming more and more aware of its own position...

Speaking of which, Britain originally formed the Commonwealth in order to maintain ties with the colonies after their independence and to serve as the "big brother."

But the former colonies are not stupid after independence. If they all cling to the thigh, why not cling to the thickest one?

America: That's me...

Thinking back to World War II, those colonies of Britain really worked hard, not only trying their best to provide various raw materials, but also organizing coalition forces from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other places to fight for Britain.

But now it's different. Although the Queen is still the nominal leader of many Commonwealth countries - for example, the Queen is also the Queen of Australia, Queen of New Zealand, Queen of Canada...

But it's only in name. Other countries don't have to give up any benefits to the Queen. Besides, they are used to this super long-term leader, so they are too lazy to change, and it's acceptable for face.

But the Commonwealth... is really not a very close alliance. For the countries in it, it feels dispensable. At most, it provides a social circle, and its presence in the global political ecology is not strong.

Those countries didn't take the so-called Commonwealth title too seriously. Now, the Commonwealth Games is the event with the strongest presence...

As mentioned before, the Commonwealth Games are held every four years. Next year, the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

The main reason is that the competition for the 2014 Commonwealth Games started as early as 2006.

At that time, the new government of Colo had just been established for three years. Colo was still an underdeveloped country that needed to rely on international aid. Naturally, it was impossible to apply for such an event...