{"id":12970,"date":"2020-01-16T19:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/former-eu-envoy-investigated-over-china-spying-claims"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:37:49","slug":"former-eu-envoy-investigated-over-china-spying-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12970","title":{"rendered":"Former EU envoy investigated over China spying claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels and Berlin buildings reportedly raided amid inquiry into former German diplomat<\/p>\n<p>A former German diplomat who worked in the EU\u2019s institutions is under investigation along with two lobbyists on suspicion of spying for the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Nine homes and offices in Brussels, Berlin, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and Bavaria have reportedly been raided by police on behalf of the German federal prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/former-eu-envoy-investigated-over-china-spying-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels and Berlin buildings reportedly raided amid inquiry into former German diplomatA former German diplomat who worked in the EU\u2019s institutions is under investigation along with two lobbyists on suspicion of spying for the Chinese government.Nine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,667,221,530,533,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-europe","category-european-union","category-germany","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}