"“The meeting is an important fixture on the international shadow agenda,” said one person with knowledge of the discussions. “Given the range of countries involved, it is not a festival of tradecraft, but rather a way of promoting a deeper understanding of intentions and bottom lines."
“There is an unspoken code among intelligence services that they can talk when more formal and open diplomacy is harder—it is a very important factor during times of tension, and the Singapore event helps promote that.”
"Larger meetings of the intelligence community are rarer, and almost never publicised."
"Russia’s war in Ukraine and transnational crime figured in the talks on Friday, the person with knowledge of the discussions added. On Thursday evening, the intelligence chiefs held an informal gathering."
"No Russian representative was present, one of the sources said. Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Volodymr V. Havrylov, was at the Shangri-La Dialogue but said he did not attend the intelligence meeting."
"At the main security dialogue, more than 600 delegates from 49 countries held three days of plenary sessions, as well as closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings at the sprawling Shangri-La Hotel."
"top spy chiefs of China and Russia met in Moscow on Monday. Nikolai Patrushev is secretary of Russia's national security council, and Chen Wenqing leads China's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. That commission supervises communist China's intelligence, legal, and security operations."
"Chen and Patrushev hold deeply antagonistic views toward the United States."
source: https://www.ntd.com/worlds-spy-chiefs-including-chinas-meet-in-secret-conclave-in-singapore_923435.html
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source: https://tvpworld.com/70324540/worlds-spy-chiefs-meet-secretly-in-singapore-report
Related - different meeting:
source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/top-chinese-and-russian-spy-chiefs-meet-in-moscow