BEIJING: Beijing warned Germany on Friday (Jan 10) to cease “hyping up” spying dangers a day after prosecutors there charged three individuals suspected of supplying technological data to Chinese language intelligence.
The German federal prosecutor’s workplace accused three of its residents, recognized solely as Herwig F, Ina F and Thomas R, on Thursday of acquiring “data on progressive applied sciences that could possibly be used for navy functions”.
Between February 2017 and April 2024, “they repeatedly collected data that would specifically be helpful for increasing China’s naval fight energy”, prosecutors mentioned in a press release.
Beijing mentioned on Friday it hoped “Germany will cease hyping up so-called espionage dangers from China and never arrange obstacles to the wholesome and steady improvement of China-Germany relations”.
“China has all the time adhered to growing China-Germany relations primarily based on the precept of mutual respect, non-interference in one another’s affairs and … abiding by legal guidelines and rules,” international ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun informed a daily information convention.
The German prosecutors mentioned Thomas R had “acted as an agent for an worker of the Chinese language intelligence service MSS primarily based in China” from 2017.
He’s mentioned to have made contact with married couple Herwig F and Ina F, who ran an organization within the western metropolis of Duesseldorf.
The group was arrested in April final yr and formally charged in December.
