{"id":63531,"date":"2024-04-23T01:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/three-german-citizens-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-china"},"modified":"2024-04-23T01:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:30:57","slug":"three-german-citizens-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63531","title":{"rendered":"Three German citizens arrested on suspicion of spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors say trio are accused of passing on technical military knowledge and export of a laser without permissions<\/p>\n<p>Three German citizens, a married couple from D\u00fcsseldorf and a man from Bad Homburg, have been arrested on suspicion of spying on behalf of China, prosecutors have said, in the second high-profile alleged espionage case reported in the country in days.<\/p>\n<p>The three are accused of passing on technical military knowhow to Chinese authorities in return for money. The head of Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency said it could be \u201cjust the tip of the iceberg\u201d of spy rings operating in Germany.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/three-german-citizens-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors say trio are accused of passing on technical military knowledge and export of a laser without permissionsThree German citizens, a married couple from D\u00fcsseldorf and a man from Bad Homburg, have been arrested on suspicion of spying on behalf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"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":[50,667,221,533,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-europe","category-germany","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\/63531","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63531\/revisions\/63532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}