{"id":63906,"date":"2024-05-08T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/court-chinese-espionage-europe"},"modified":"2024-05-08T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:00:36","slug":"countries-are-now-forced-to-confront-it-rise-in-chinese-espionage-arrests-alarms-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63906","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Countries are now forced to confront it\u2019: Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say experts<\/p>\n<p>As China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, arrived in Serbia for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/07\/serbia-warm-welcome-xi-jinping-china-eu-tensions\">second leg of his European tour<\/a>, authorities across the continent were grappling with a wave of allegations about Chinese spying.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, meanwhile, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, revealed that a \u201cmalign actor\u201d had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/may\/07\/270000-uk-forces-records-thought-to-have-been-exposed-to-chinese-hackers\">compromised British military payroll records<\/a>, with reports pointing the finger at China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/court-chinese-espionage-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say expertsAs China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, arrived in Serbia for the second leg of his European tour, authorities across the continent were grappling with a wave of al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,667,221,533,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-europe","category-germany","category-law","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\/63906","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63918,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63906\/revisions\/63918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}