Germany Cracks Down on Chinese Regime’s Spying

Epoch Times ^ | 28 June | Gisela Sommer

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An espionage incident only weeks prior to chancellor Angela Merkel’s planned China visit may be threatening the bilateral relations between Berlin and Beijing said German news magazine Spiegel Online in a June 26 article. Just days earlier, China’s intelligence gathering activities were prominently highlighted in a report issued by Germany’s Ministry of the Interior.

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s office is investigating two high-ranking Chinese officials on allegations of espionage, and the matter could make Angela Merkel’s upcoming China visit more difficult.

According to information obtained by the Spiegel, Federal Prosecutors are investigating two Chinese individuals on accusations of spying against practitioners of Falun Gong in Germany. One of the accused is said to hold the position of a Chinese vice-minister and serves as head of the “610 Office,” an extra-judicial arm of the Chinese Communist Party, which executes the Communist Party’s directive to fight the Falun Gong meditation movement worldwide.

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[john drake]

I’m not sure why this would surprise anyone, the Chicoms having been stealing military, corporate and security secrets for decades from around the world, with a focus on the West for technological advances that they can’t create on their own, ever. We used to accuse the Japanese of reverse engineering everything 40-50 years ago; they’re past that however the Chinese continue to do it unabashedly. They could care less given there are no real functioning courts in their country that recognizes anyone elses rights, much less their own. What a joke; and they send thousands of their “students” over here every year to get an American college education, and probably steal the university blind by downloading everything they can get their greedy little fingers on.

[I am Richard Brandon]

Sort of serves the universities right. The reason those students are here and able to do it is the greed of those universities for money. Fee paying students don’t you know!