{"id":18450,"date":"2020-05-19T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/belgium-confirms-inquiry-into-malta-china-spy-threat"},"modified":"2020-05-19T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:28:32","slug":"belgium-confirms-inquiry-into-malta-china-spy-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18450","title":{"rendered":"Belgium confirms inquiry into Malta-China spy threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation centres on claims Beijing has spied on EU from Malta\u2019s embassy in Brussels <\/p>\n<p>Malta\u2019s ties to China have come under the spotlight after Belgium\u2019s intelligence services confirmed they have been investigating suspicions that Beijing has been spying from the country\u2019s embassy opposite the European commission\u2019s headquarters in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Belgium\u2019s homeland security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat, made the unusual disclosure about the existence of the inquiry after the French newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/article\/2020\/05\/15\/les-ombres-chinoises-de-l-ambassade-de-malte-a-bruxelles_6039710_3210.html\">Le Monde reported<\/a> on the suspected espionage by the Chinese state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/belgium-confirms-inquiry-into-malta-china-spy-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation centres on claims Beijing has spied on EU from Malta\u2019s embassy in Brussels Malta\u2019s ties to China have come under the spotlight after Belgium\u2019s intelligence services confirmed they have been investigating suspicions that Beijing has been s&#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":[41,888,50,667,221,530,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belgium","category-china","category-espionage","category-europe","category-european-union","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450","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=18450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions\/18451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}