What does "Five Eyes Alliance" mean?

What is the "Five Eyes Alliance"?

Hong Kong Economic Daily, June 3, 2020

The "Five Eyes" alliance is composed of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand under the Anglo-American agreement. An international military intelligence sharing organization whose origins can be traced back to World War II.

During World War II, intelligence exchange was an important part of cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States, mainly for cooperation in monitoring enemy radio information. After the war, this cooperation continued, and the "British-American Communications Agreement" (abbreviation: UKUSA) was reached in 1946. In the following years, three Commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, also successively joined the agreement, and the "Five Eyes Alliance" was officially established.

European countries such as Germany and France are regarded as allies of the "Five Eyes Alliance" but are not members.

If we think of the entire world as a "jianghu", and all countries in the world are members of this rivers and lakes. In this world, there are many gangs, such as the "NATO" and "Warsaw Pact" organizations that we are familiar with in history. The "Five Eyes Alliance" can also be regarded as a gang in the world. The so-called Five Eyes Alliance, also known as the "Five Eyes", is a multinational surveillance and intelligence collection organization led by the United States and the United Kingdom after World War II. The current members of the "Five Eyes Alliance" include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and five other countries.

Members of the "Five Eyes Alliance"

The "Five Eyes Alliance" is actually an intelligence network alliance composed of the above-mentioned five countries. It realizes the interconnection and exchange of intelligence information within the alliance. For the alliance In foreign countries, intelligence collection such as surveillance, investigation, and surveillance is carried out. Therefore, if the five countries of the Five Eyes Alliance can actually share intelligence resources, the relationship between them must be extraordinary. They do not have the same interests as usual, but can be understood as mutual interests. In between is "a family".

The United States "Pentagon"

So, what is the relationship between the above five countries? We found that its roots lie in the United Kingdom, which was the former British Empire, because the four countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were once colonies of the United Kingdom, and they were not colonies of colonizing other countries, but were all in the eyes of Europeans. The New World countries were eventually formed by a large number of British immigrants and their descendants. In other words, the people of the five countries of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are mainly Anglo-Saxons. They can be said to have the same origin. They can be said to "breath out the same nostril" with each other and have a very close relationship. Intimate, therefore, although there is a long border between the United States and Canada, it is basically undefended.

Five Eyes Alliance

At present, the Five Eyes Alliance is led by the United States. In international affairs, the other four countries will usually support whatever opinions the United States has. Sometimes it is inconvenient to be in the United States. When China comes forward, the younger brothers in the Five Eyes Alliance such as Australia and New Zealand will jump out and serve as pawns. After we understand the relationship between the five member states of the "Five Eyes Alliance", we can see if there are other countries that may join, such as the "Six Eyes Alliance", but no one can be found among developed countries. A country dominated by Anglo-Saxons.

Therefore, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the "Five Eyes Alliance" to expand. How about adding "Israel"?