Rebirth of England.

Chapter 952: Commonwealth's Presence

Britain is one of America's closest allies. Not to mention the complicated "conjugated father-son" relationship between the two sides, at least in Europe, Britain is very important to America.

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

Of course, there are some actions that will not be reported, and these actions are often aimed at Britain...

The reason why the team led by Mikhail targeted these people this time was because they appeared in London, and it was very likely that they were targeting the Duke of Devonshire.

You know, the most important task of the intelligence system that Barron has is to protect himself and everyone in his system. This intelligence system was originally established to track down the members of the "London Star" fraud gang that caused heavy losses to the Devonshire family.

And before that, his intelligence system had also discovered signs that the CIA had investigated Barron, and the intelligence investigation and transmission paths involved in the matter discovered at the time had also been under the surveillance of his intelligence system.

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

In this case, they will naturally keep close surveillance on these people to prevent anything from happening that could endanger the Duke of Devonshire.

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

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

But for Mikhail, he intuitively felt that these people would be involved in something important, so he wanted to find out all of their actions without leaving anything out.

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

Nigel was well aware of some of France's actions in West Africa through CSIB (Colo Security Intelligence Bureau).

It is indeed as he said, in Colo, the infiltration of French NGOs has not had much effect. After all, in addition to the fact that the Security Intelligence Agency itself is very vigilant about such things, the African branch of the Prosperous Earth Foundation is located in Colo. In this way, it is difficult for those NGOs to go against the Prosperous Earth Foundation.

You know, Colo's major television, radio, newspaper and other media are all controlled by the West African Media Group. With the cooperation of the West African Media Group, the Prosperous Earth Foundation uses Colo as its base to radiate West Africa and even the whole of Africa. How could it allow NGOs from other countries, including France, to grow and develop here?

A few local people in Colo who have connections with French-based NGOs, such as some scholars, lawyers and businessmen, have been included in the monitoring list of the Security Intelligence Service and have no chance to stir up trouble.

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

Naturally, there is room for NGOs to stir up trouble.

According to CSIB intelligence, the Malian government also noticed the actions of those French NGOs and protested to France through some channels.

But the French did not take it too seriously and simply brushed it off with high-sounding excuses such as "freedom of speech".

In fact, what Prosperous Earth Foundation does in West Africa is not fundamentally different from those French NGOs. However, the difference is that Prosperous Earth Foundation is far less radical, and currently it mainly carries out some activities that seem to promote society in countries in the West African Free Trade Zone and Nigeria, such as some exchange activities in the fields of medical care, education and academics, which generally do not cause resentment from local governments.

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This time Barron came to Chloe, ostensibly at an invitation to attend Chloe's competition in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The Commonwealth Games is a comprehensive sports event held every four years by Commonwealth countries.

The British Combined Games were first held in 1930, when Britain was still the British Empire and the games were known as the British Empire Games.

The name of the Games was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union tacitly supported the "national liberation movement", which actually dismembered and deprived the colonies of old imperialist powers such as Britain and France, including Australia, Canada and other former British colonies, which have gradually become "commonwealths", but Britain still stubbornly calls 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 Britain is becoming more and more aware of its own position...

In fact, Britain originally established the Commonwealth in order to maintain ties with its colonies after they became independent and to act as the "leader".

But the problem is that those former colonies are not stupid after independence. If they all cling to someone else's thigh, why not cling to the thickest one?

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America: It is me...

Back in the Second World War, those colonies of Britain worked really hard. Not only did they try their best to provide all kinds of raw materials, but also Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other places organized coalition forces to travel thousands of miles to fight for Britain.

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

But it is only in name only. Other countries do not have to give up any interests to the queen. Besides, they are used to this long-serving master and are too lazy to change it. It also saves face.

But the Commonwealth... is not really a very close alliance. To the countries within 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 in the country…

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

The main reason is that the competition for the 2006 Commonwealth Games bid had already begun in 2014.

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

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