I'd say they see a spike in uncovering Chinese and Russian espionage.
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Wasn't it the Czech who rolled up a stone and found a lot of stuff wriggling underneath recently? Is this just tearing the weed up and finding that the roots go far and deep?
Also, wasn't it the Czech who got that recent stopgap artillery shell deal together for Ukraine?
I like the Czech more and more.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"We must finally understand that this is a very serious and very real threat to our security," said Green Party lawmaker Konstantin von Notz who heads the Parliamentary Control Committee for the Intelligence Services in the lower house, the Bundestag.
"We initiated these investigations, and once the evidence was clear, we were able to hand this case over to the police and the public prosecutors," Thomas Haldenwang, president of Germany's domestic intelligence service, told DW.
"We must not be naive in our dealings with China," said German Minister for Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, adding: "What is needed is an "even more critical weighing up of risks and benefits in cooperation, especially in science and universities."
Tuesday's arrest of a suspected Chinese agent, however, highlights the field of politics rather than science or business: Jian G. was a close associate of Maximilian Krah, the lead candidate of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the European elections in June 2024.
The far-right AfD, which is being monitored nationwide by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a suspected extremist party, has also repeatedly been accused of having close ties with Russia.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has described the unprecedented arrest of six suspected spies within six days as a success: "Our security authorities, above all the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, have massively strengthened counter-espionage measures.
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