Eurosatory, Paris (2016, June) | Thierry Poignant (top left) now works for Thales. In the front row, from left to right: Moe Kyaw Thaung, head of the Ky-Tha company; Han Thu, then Myanmar’s ambassador to France; Soe Win, the junta’s second-in-command (subject to EU sanctions since 2021), Ko Ko Lwin, the current Minister of Energy (subject to EU sanctions since 2022) and Tin Maung Swe, the Burmese ambassador to China and now the junta’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In September 2025, Follow The Money, in collaboration with Justice for Myanmar,10 published an investigation into the ‘Great Firewall’ developed by the Chinese company Geedge Networks, which is reportedly used by the Myanmar junta and is said to rely on software from Thales. According to this investigation, in 2024, the Myanmar junta held licences for at least one flagship product: Tiangou Secure 10 China exports censorship tech to authoritarian regimes – aided by EU firms | Follow The Money (2025, 11 September)