China acts more aggressively in the field of political espionage, According to journalists of the German editionS & uuml; ddeutsche newspaper Christoph Giesen and Ronen Steinke.
In summer 2016 , one of the deputies of the CDU / CSU faction in the Bundestag was in social networks an attractive offer from a Chinese manager Jason Wang. Stranger, whose profile seemed serious thanks to the contacts of other German politicians and reputable researchers, He praised the expert opinion of the deputy and asked him for money to be analytical materials. Honorable mention was to be at least 30 thousand euros, tell journalists.
Property interests deputy. At first it was about general matters of foreign policy, Gradually, however, there were more detailed and current topics. Correspondence time attracted the attention of the German counter-espionage, and she informed the deputy. Learning, who hide behind Jason Wang's profile, MP was shocked, confirmed the publication of insiders.
Previously, China was regarded as & quot; a world champion" Economic espionage, but now the country is becoming more and more aggressive and political espionage, write journalists. President of the German Federal Constitution Protection Service Hans-Georg Maassen gave a warning about the & quot; large-scale attempt to get to the parliaments, ministries and departments of & quot;.
For Jason Van hidden Chinese Ministry of State Security, explain the authors of the article. For, to quietly get to the Germans, Ministry operates a minimum 500 bogus profiles in Linkedin network of professional contacts. Photos in the accounts actually belong to Asian actors or models, According to the publication.
The purpose of the secret recruiters from China is, to encourage German politicians to come to China. There Beijing has every opportunity, to infect mobile phones and laptops officials and viruses, first of all, put pressure on them, referred to in Article.
In response to a request for the publication of China's embassy denied the allegations, describing them as lacking any basis.
However, security experts from Berlin confirm two facts of the Chinese espionage. So, Recently, the Chinese spies managed to travel to China informant of the German Bundestag, an employee of another deputy. Several times he had flown to the customers in China. Communication with them is also carried out through the profile of Jason Wang, and in this story the Chinese already transfer money, referred to in Article. In just a few analyzes employee of the German Parliament, According to the expert, I received about 10 thousand euros.
& Quot; much has been said about the Russian special services and hackers in recent years, while Chinese spies, as they say in the Chancellor's office, much more dangerous than Russian, – to journalists. – Russia, Ministry of opinion, only wants to destroy, wreak havoc without a clear goal. China, in front of, He wants to get long-term impact, that in the end is much more threatening & quot;. According to the German Federal Intelligence Service, Chinese special services unit employs more than one million employees. The more the Chinese communist regime is interested in foreign policy strategy of domination, the more he uses his huge resources for espionage abroad, authors note.
the, that spies from Beijing is increasingly trying to attack parliaments, already noticed in other countries. According to China expert Peter Mattis, several of these cases occurred in the United States, but there, Unlike attacks on German politicians, Chinese spies restricts the recruitment of their staff.
According to one senior German security, a feature of Chinese spies is their impudence. In contrast to the more circumspect Russian colleagues, Chinese work & quot; boldly and unscrupulous & quot;, transfers edition.
Also in 2016 year during the visit of Angela Merkel, German and six ministers in Beijing, China promised to stop economic espionage. Now it became known, which is about the same time, Chinese spies got to the Bundestag.
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