Suspected Chinese spies arrested: ‘A case of proliferation and weapons know-how’ | DW News

The German Federal Prosecutor's office on Monday said three German nationals were arrested under the strong suspicion of having worked for the Chinese secret service.
Prosecutors believe the three may have been involved in research projects that could be useful for China to expand its maritime power.
The three suspects, Herwig F, Ina F. and Thomas R, were arrested by officers of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in the western German cities of Düsseldorf and Bad Homburg.
The defendants' homes and workplaces were also searched.
The charges relate to espionage "at a point in time that cannot be precisely determined before June 2022."
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#germany #china #spies

[@beautanner8409]

Tip of the iceberg

[@BlueredCatalan]

If you think there's a lot of Chinese spies in Germany wait till you learn about how many CIA assets are in the German establishment. Germany is a compromised country, compromised by Russia, China and the US. It's quite sad tbh.

[@samueljr.2026]

zero versus zero

[@tazandoreo]

1000%

[@jakep1979]

They are everywhere.

[@gavriloking5637]

*riceberg

[@toothlessseer3153]

This is how 'Chinese R&D' works 🤢

[@imadkhaliq2941]

CIA and MI6 all do this sort of work but when the west does it it's called intelligence gathering.

[@Stevekpb]

Pretty much, they even steal from their Russian ally.

[@Stevekpb]

@@zacksmith5963 Yeah.... you blindly defending the CCP with broken english doesn't prove my point at all does it? 🤣 How much does the CCP pay you guys in those bot farms?

[@Stevekpb]

​@@zacksmith5963 "Chinese R&D is above Germany" - What a joke, China hasn't invented anything significant since the CCP purged China of academic during the revolution. Now they just steal what isn't nailed down from other nations like common thieves.

[@beautanner8409]

@@zacksmith5963 Perhaps, after stealing enough of it from every country they could get their fingers on.

[@sonneh86]

This should be treated as treason

[@bombelz]

Isn't it..?

[@bbb1007]

It is

[@Elo-hv3fw]

Which it is !

[@josephwallis8965]

They are, like the guy who stole all the specification profiles of F22 and F35 which costed America billions $ to develop, the Chinese guy only got a bit over 10 years jail eating Emperor's meal in an American jail, try China, it probably would have a different outcome??

[@thelispinglizard5458]

It would be in america 100%

[@kyungshim6483]

They are everywhere. In every country. It's been decades. It's not only military technology. It's also trade secrets, R&D and commercial technologies.

[@mengreat6982]

C.IA is everywhere knowns throughout the world

[@esther_18]

Money laundering by Mainland Chinese everywhere too.

[@user-4m9-dr80h4]

@@mengreat6982 Yeah, they wear immaculate suits-and-ties, drive luxury cars and live in the Forbidden City.

[@eddgrs9193]

Every Chinese national working in a Western University and corporation is a spy.

[@nublex]

@@mengreat6982 your point? CIA is protecting OUR western tech

[@Youbetternowatchthis]

Germany is under serious attack by Russia and China. This should not be underestimated. Especially the Russians are very good at thsi game

[@Yahyia-cv3sx]

So, the West must step up its game. "The game is ON!"

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Russia can't even do anything about its own dark web cartel kingpin openly posting to KZbin about his work. FSB is not as clever as you seem to think it is.

[@TriggaTrey361]

We must stop attacks from China and Russia by acknowledging the ongoing conflict this is war.

[@karlwalther]

Охота на ведьм...

[@krollpeter]

Russia, Iran, North Korea ... we note all countries that are troublemakers and warmongers are affiliated with China.

[@gooflydo]

I am sure the China sympathizers are going to downvote all legitimate arguments that will be made in the comment section.

[@TheMrCougarful]

Hey, 1 billion Chinese bots can't be wrong.

[@geoms6263]

Last time when I wrote a negative comment about China, my computer restarted...

[@nicolasnicolas5238]

Jesus sympathizers will say "Amen" in the comments Amen 🙏

[@rouz0]

And nothing suspecious in your opinion that i a month they get Russian and chines spies. Let me guess who will be the next . Probaly indian & Iranian . 😄

[@user-sf8rs8py2p]

Germany arrested three German. We Chinese don’t care at all😂

[@user-sm9jy2jm1i]

And yet the Chinese would have you believe they're genius

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

It's all Face. One could also say it's all Farce

[@DGas-rg1pk]

To be fair, the capacity to successfully steal intelligence has historically been a trait of history's more successful civilisations.

[@only_fair23]

You realise Germany could just be making this up right?

[@thedownunderverse]

@@only_fair23CCP troll spotted

[@zacksmith5963]

​@thedownunderverse cia bot spotted

[@andrewjones-productions]

Two UK citizens have been arrested for the same crime also. It makes one wonder if this was coordinated between the UK and Germany to send a clear message to China. The timing could be nothing more than coincidence too of course.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Nah they probably collabed

[@Booz2010]

Slava 🇹🇼

[@asmirann3636]

​@@lowwastehighmelanin German chancellor just visited China and did many backroom deals with the Chinese. Germans are actually working for the Chinese. Only UK, US stands up against aggression from China and Russia. While Germans are always engaging in covert deals with the Chinese and Russians.

[@AbuBawa-sw1ut]

Germany does not have any navy technology that China wants.

[@michaelpelzek8882]

​@@zacksmith5963take it then cowards.

[@mvaldman2001]

Well, Citizenship does not guarantee loyalty anymore…

[@koushikdas1992]

Citizenship doesn't provide loyalty at all! Even non-citizenahip immigrants can be more trustable.

[@101yayo]

It never did

[@Elo-hv3fw]

How loyal are government administrations to its citizens

[@Davey-Boyd]

Where you are born is an accident. Being born a citizen of a nation state does not mean you have to be loyal to that state.

[@seymorefact4333]

🤣🤣 Germany has plenty of spies in China. And USA has spies in Germany, China, and the world! Ask Angela...spied on by the US masters!

[@jorgegomez524]

They have been doing this for decades. When will Europe wake up?

[@52erfan]

They always come as couples to not raising suspicious

[@zacksmith5963]

Wild goose Chae

[@seymorefact4333]

🤣🤣 Germany has plenty of spies in China. And USA has spies in Germany, China, and the world! Ask Angela...spied on by the US masters!

[@stevenkerstreven5600]

If you cant see someone's eyes you cant trust them

[@mvaldman2001]

Airbus manufacturing in China is also a threat!

[@banditonehundred]

They order a lot of planes

[@seymorefact4333]

🤣🤣 Germany has plenty of spies in China. And USA has spies in Germany, China, and the world! Ask Angela...spied on by the US masters!

[@conniepan4684]

you just know about China? they have this for a long long time.

[@mengreat6982]

No it's c I . A

[@Booz2010]

Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾

[@user-4m9-dr80h4]

@@mengreat6982 BIG China has to copy and steal everything from the little West.

[@Minnie--ru2ew]

@@mengreat6982no, it’s chinese E & D (espionage & development).

[@eat.melon.qunzhong]

They have this for long time but this country is just too dumb and only caught two after so many years. 😅

[@bigjohn697791]

2 UK Citizens who worked in the house of commons (parliament) Arrested Yesterday under our Official Secrets Act.

[@JohEl777]

China Uncensored, Serpentza and Laowhy86 been warning about this for years. China has police stations they operate from in countries all over the world.

[@101yayo]

Yeah KZbinrs are trusted sources. Real intelligence going on when they make money by farming clicks by fear mongoring from easily suggestible people.

[@JohEl777]

@@101yayo They don't make much money, a lot of their videos get demonetized, they do it because they're good guys who want to expose China's lies.

[@winstonsmith2627]

Not only they have been warning about this for years. Look to BBC, DW, CNN, etc. if you don't trust independent youtubers.

[@michaelpelzek8882]

​@@101yayoAs opposed to listening to the CCP?

[@TC-fq7cy]

But in their eyes, they only see $$$$$.

[@jenalatz3589]

They are everywhere.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

CIA-NED, MI6 and Mossad...

[@uriituw]

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165Oh, look. Another one.

[@alastairwallace6153]

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 how are they trying to take the world in an axis of evil right now?? only autocracies lie and put down the truth and want everyone to be like them... down to the DNA

[@zacksmith5963]

@@uriituw cia bot spotted

[@uriituw]

@@zacksmith5963 LMAO! Is that a joke? Are you really comparing that to the CCP trolls? For clarity, I have nothing to do with the CIA.

[@quartercast]

And how do the judicial consequences for spying compare in Germany and China?

[@bullpup1337]

In China, you disappear and your history is removed from all official records, including the internet.

[@rytiss.5205]

Well as everyone knows US had a massive spying operation in Germany and even hacked into the former chancellors phone. What happened? Nothing at all. Germany just pretended it never happened. So I guess it is safe to assume that the judicial consequences for spying in Germany are non-existent.

[@markmcculloch2570]

This could never ever happen in reverse.

[@RandomGuy9]

Maybe our spies are just better.

[@seymorefact4333]

🤣🤣 Germany has plenty of spies in China. And USA has spies in Germany, China, and the world! Ask Angela...spied on by the US masters!

[@preston74]

A fork does not care how chopsticks are made.

[@nxo91]

BAN TIK TOK

[@zacksmith5963]

Why ? 1st amendment

[@markdeckard7651]

Caught with their hand in the fortune cookie jar

[@DeepJiesel]

Chinese and thief are now synonymous.

[@user-sf8rs8py2p]

They are all German 😅

[@yapsiauwsoengie6507]

Do you use silk, paper, gunpowder, compass... etc. etc.? Where do your museum contents come from? Have you paid back what you robbed from China in the past? So who is the ancestor of the thief?

[@Sean-giang]

​@@yapsiauwsoengie6507you use yt a western media platform😂

[@ZETA14.88]

@@Sean-giang nah, youtube is founded by jawed karim, a bangladeshi

[@Sean-giang]

@@ZETA14.88 Steve chen, a Taiwanese national

[@IbnBahtuta]

Bummer, we only caught two. Why is there always the third man?

[@cA7up]

Always need the get away driver 😮😅..

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Because it's not rampant to begin with . 🤷

[@brianmansan]

Germany must break diplomatic relationship with China & stop selling their cars in China also. Germany will be more prosperous & its economy will get better after that.

[@ponuni]

I honestly can't tell if this is serious. Germany will be more prosperous if they self sanction their cars? That's gotta be some 20 IQ take here.

[@oraetblavora2375]

@@ponuni shill account

[@ponuni]

​@@oraetblavora2375 Tell me where I'm getting it wrong. The fact that their comment has 36 upvotes really worries me.

[@user-sf8rs8py2p]

@@ponuni You are right. We have our own cars and much cheaper than German cars🤣We don’t care if you sell cars to us or not at all🤭

[@bubshab]

Don’t steal. Don’t blackmail.

[@lil----lil]

Winnie Xitler - again. No surprise here.

[@mr.e3065]

Protect freedom and democracy.

[@julianng9997]

Cash is king every politician can be bought

[@citizenenak]

Didn't some Russians just get arrested for this? Its a bad look diplomatically by accepting info as a trader with China. I thought China was doing outreach. Guess they are doing both kinds.

[@user-sm9jy2jm1i]

Let me tell you something about Asian countries. Truth and justice are way down the pecking order. Status and saving face rule the roost. And they'll lie and steal on a whim to protect that. Top down corruption creates a society where even family members don't trust each other Lived experience

[@icu17siberia]

Chinas outreach is to rheinmetal employees

[@Booz2010]

Slava 🇹🇼

[@MrMokey24]

This comes just after our chancellor had a meeting with Jinping about trade and cooperation with china... Kind of embarassing for all parties involved

[@sidstephen2584]

Why does this come as a surprise to anyone?

[@bernob9770]

What can Germany do?!

[@zacksmith5963]

Wild goose chase

[@Kievgermes]

What does Germany do to counter this espionage?

[@winstonsmith2627]

Pretending to counter espionage and making a show of it when put under pressure from the media.

[@seymorefact4333]

Germany has plenty of spies in China. And USA has spies in Germany, China, and the world! Ask Angela...spied on by the US masters! google, amazon, meta, x, msft, apple, intel, cisco, qualcomm....all own by your fav CIA!

[@Ogmartofficial]

They are everywhere. In the Philippines, one far flung city near one of the military EDCA sites has influx of Chinese students. Official numbers are over 400 but sources say there could be over 4,000 Chinese in that locality as some students have brought their families. This is just the tip of the iceberg though. Recently, a rented house of some Chinese near the capital was raided and found there are high powered firearms. Some POGO (online gaming companies) are also rumoured to be Chinese Sleeper Cells.

[@pipiqiqi4010]

is there any technology or education that Chinese need from Philippine? why so many Chinese students influx into Philippine? i just heard that the Chinese students will choose the US or UK or some western countries as their oversea education destination, never heard Philippine is on the list.

[@Ogmartofficial]

@@pipiqiqi4010 as per the latest interview with the city mayor. Most of the Chinese students are there for postgraduate business studies. When I was in uni, there were international students too across the country but mostly were from South Korea and Japan. Philippines is popular especially with South Koreans as a cheaper alternative to obtain English-based education. It's just very concerning as the influx of Chinese students started when the new EDCA sites were announced and considering the growing conflict between China and the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.

[@pipiqiqi4010]

@@Ogmartofficial from what I've heard, some Chinese students just want to get the certification of the postgraduate, and they wouldn't go to Philippine for studying in person, they just learn from online. and these students are not the young generations, but some people who had worked for a long time and just want to get some higher education certification to make more salary.

[@E_l_l_i_e]

​@pipiqiqi4010 the figure was from the Philippine Bureau of Immigration, meaning they entered the country. They are not online students.

[@Ogmartofficial]

@@pipiqiqi4010 some might be doing it online or sort of a diploma mill. However, there are several reports from the locals. Plus, it's hard not to notice foreign Chinese are they have the tendency to congregate among themselves. In one of the universities, as per the local students, the Chinese students are given preferential treatment like setting aside a portion of their library as for Chinese students only. Also, some might not even be in the immigration numbers as there are also reports of Chinese people who have illegally obtained Filipino citizenship.

[@samlatooni]

No worries, nsa is already here with alll access😅😅😅😅

[@TheTwangKings]

Germany attracts a lot of spies these says. This means china and ruzzia are afraid! 😂😂😂

[@robertlee6338]

Nah Germany is a country where Military Generals use unencrypted videoconferencing lol

[@hto_ya_blyat]

*Пока что мы над Германией только смеёмся*

[@TheTwangKings]

@@hto_ya_blyat Недолго будешь смеяться, дядя, гарантирую.

[@hto_ya_blyat]

@@TheTwangKings *Как страшно. Наверное самое ужасное на что сейчас способна Германия - это сделать моего сына педиком, если ор вдруг когда-то окажется в Германии*

[@arun-it9gr]

China attracts a lot of interest from the five eyes! Is the West afraid!?

[@Mautiks]

They’ve probably been in place since 1946…

[@amsf1]

Newsflash they're in every country

[@danielpearl2680]

Every country does

[@CsaSzono1]

No surprise

[@DOWNUNDER.]

Three spies, not even a drop in the bucket

[@bartmacaluso]

An eye should be kept on as to what was transferred to China despite our having been told the espionage was caught early

[@axle.australian.patriot]

This has been happening for a very long time. An eye should have been kept on it 20 or more years ago :)

[@Allaiya.]

Be curious if they were born German citizens or became citizens

[@brianlee6260]

Then why did your Sholz go there？I don't understand, are they your enemy or your friend?

[@winstonsmith2627]

If only it were that simple. Much of German economic prosperity depends on selling 'our' stuff to China.

[@chadjohnson2338]

They stole field corn kernels from a field in the US.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Oh that's WEIRD wth

[@nathanspreitzer6738]

@@lowwastehighmelaninyeah they wanted high yield corn from the US so they steal it and try to breed/reverse engineer it

[@chadjohnson2338]

True story, between 5 to ten years ago, I think in Iowa

[@icu17siberia]

that true. I think about 8 years ago. Low water use corn seeds to be exact

[@doujinflip]

Agriculture is among the biggest targets of IP theft by the PRC. “New China” paved over too much of its arable land and poisoned the rest with pesticides and industrial runoff, and has become unable to feed itself with the crops and methods it uses nowadays.

[@Greedst]

This is all part of manufacturing consent for what is to come.

[@alanc457]

Funny how 2 Brits were recently arrested too. Australia and Canada next 🤔 What nefarious villains these Chinese are, turning our own against us

[@HKim0072]

Congrats Olaf for deepening ties with China during your recent trip!

[@sqrd3536]

I thought it was just a British University problem. This is worrying on a military angle. But they've been cloning for years. They're doing it globally even in Africa taken over local markets. This should be addressed

[@61amaral]

Nothing unusual all the tech they have is from steeling!

[@DavidRowbotham-gu7kz]

So odd to hear a journalist say anything good about the government that protects his kids at night.

[@Neppy1414]

they are here in the states too.

[@OwenDale-pc2bv]

Here too

[@frqnci2764]

Imagine a Chinese spy with those creepy flat eyes keeping watch on everything.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Okay big nose .. 😅

[@azurecliff8709]

This is the other side of Scholz and Xi Jinping's negotiations.

[@xrpuertorican4472]

Where's Jack Ryan when you need him???

[@nemokat09]

But....but....Olaf Scholz just went to China to mend relations.😅

[@zacksmith5963]

​@@Neo_Vandole actually only those jealous of china don't want it China is more advanced then all of eu combined

[@jameswatt7249]

What a complete surprise 😂.

[@zacksmith5963]

And 0 proof

[@marieabineau]

repaying 10% not only in the usa. ???

[@shabbirmanji4190]

0:20 What were their immigration status??

[@dennisestradda9746]

Chyna copy and paste as always

[@zacksmith5963]

China creates . Usa copies and pastes

[@sewinvicta9274]

so who's tapping the phones now lol

[@jusele-ox9rc]

The moment they found a transmitter in their egg foo jung they knew something was fishy with their order.

[@default_doppelganger]

Are they going to show the mugs of the suspects...are they blond Germans or blonde Chinese? 😂😅

[@koushikdas1992]

​@@Neo_Vandole Immigrants can get citizenship in Germany as well.

[@advsonhere]

"The choice is ours" documentary has the solution to these old games.

[@marcusnoble132]

I'm sorry was that really a question?

[@AmitSunar_Modi_Ka_Parivar.]

Olaf Scholz has just met Xi Weenie-The-Pooh in China 😂😂😂😂

[@delveling]

omfg , are we finally waking up after a coma ?

[@paddioche]

Why did the uk host an eu/china summit in 1998 and part of this summit was signing of a treaty on technology & scientific co-operation ...can anyone explain this?why did this happen

[@mr.e3065]

Search and read about China's 5th Column. This is serious.

[@zacksmith5963]

Lecture israel

[@mr.e3065]

@zacksmith5963 Hmm, you don't look like a Jack Smith. More like a Wu Mao. 🤔

[@mr.e3065]

@@zacksmith5963 No, wŭmao.

[@justinzak5025]

Years ago, I would have scoffed at the theory of battle of civilizations, but it seems like the West and East are moving that direction

[@user-cu9ww9tj4i]

중국은 유럽 기술탈취를 가장 많이하는 국가일듯.

[@ryanthyag2723]

They know how to copy in the best way 😢😢😢😢

[@TheDonod]

Wait... So youre telling me that Chinease domestic politics could spread out?! Nooooo.....

[@WilliamNeacy]

I'm starting to think that comment sections need to go. It offers very little, while providing a platform to foreign adversaries to bolster their misinformation campaigns.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

It is a difficult problem that has no easy solution and you will find that Chyna and Russia leverage this fact. It is an unfortunate Achilles heal in open democratic societies.

[@vikramganasen]

So your solution is censorship?

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Hey Bubba did you know that the u.s.a has seven hundred and fifty foreign military bases in eighty countries yet general milley states that the Chinese balloon is a threat to world peace, you can't make this up, china has one foreign military base .....😅😅😅

[@MatteoHu]

As other countries don't do exactly the same anywhere in the world, from US, Israel, Russia and UK

[@moosesnWoop]

was it on War Thunder?

[@joeson7700]

They are UBIQUITOUS, & World wide

[@jtom68]

You thinks that spying, here in Canada we have Chinese police stations throughout our country and our government doesn’t want to shut them down and boot them out of the country

[@uriituw]

China just can’t keep to themselves.

[@Park501]

It also makes you wonder if they are doing it in Germany what other countries do they have operations in that are as yet not known about

[@pipiqiqi4010]

@@Neo_Vandole it doesn't make sense that China wants to spy some military know-how from Germany. is German military power stronger than China's?

[@massapower]

Don't mess with the GERMANS!!😎👊👊

[@DallasTaylor]

How are Chinese or Russians in Germany supposed to know they are out of bounds when Germany freely gives their countries anything they want?

[@The_Stef]

??

[@DH-zp7bc]

This has been happening in plain sight for a while now. Chinese firms have legitimately taken over industries such as steel in the UK copied the tech then dumped. They don't seem to have a proficient inventive capacity, but they are masters of bootlegging.

[@epsilonxvi5675]

There are lots of german working china EV and robotics will you call them spy too?

[@parjanyashukla176]

Whatever happened to the German-Chinese partnership. 😂😂😂

[@MichaelYoung-gl8ou]

US listened to Angela Merkel's phone.

[@Cecil-yc6mc]

and we see why. they suspected that she was a KGB mole and maybe she was

[@dkrawk8309]

Oh God

[@mcpoteee]

ban china

[@mr.e3065]

Great idea, don't let them into any countries.

[@OwenDale-pc2bv]

Yeah, even ​USA SK JP too @mr.e3065

[@KibaJovanni]

When money trumps ur country sad

[@winstonsmith2627]

indeed. Sadly that's the case wherever you go (and would want to stay).

[@zuroneuro4665]

Does somebody believe this ?

[@davze4341]

chinese people look more humble than europeans

[@happymelon7129]

😅 NSA smiling ... China still can't beat me.

[@WSOJ3]

So, what’s there to spy in Germany? Germany’s secret nuclear weapon program?? 🤔🤔

[@TriggaTrey361]

Don't blame the spy or anything right!

[@gorishokgo5825]

In Germany koran law ruling over domestic law

[@paulneufarn]

Where do the spies of western alliance work ? 😉😎😁😜

[@deller5924]

They were GMO Chinese that blended in.

[@ethimself5064]

If guilty - Judge says 99 years

[@qayray]

There are no 99-year sentences or anything close in Germany

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Where are you coming up with this from? Did you comment on the wrong video?

[@ethimself5064]

@@lowwastehighmelanin Not at all. I have less than zero use for Dictatorships of any kind.

[@zacksmith5963]

Nah . Just excuses

[@tonyluseno2673]

See how they operate..deny and leave you to your fate..hopefully the arrested now know a thing or two on fakery.

[@snowblack6644]

This issue is brought up when election, it becomes poltical and foolish the voters

[@jaymudd2817]

If they get to the US Embassy, Manchurian Joe will grant them asylum.

[@garfield877]

Oh, that's how Merkel's phone is tapped.

[@biggertree7063]

Chinese spies is redundant.

[@davidd.c.9344]

Confucius saayyyy...ditto! 🤣😅

[@zacksmith5963]

Just to silent dissent due to recession ​@@davidd.c.9344