{"id":74527,"date":"2025-09-30T22:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/30\/afd-politician-former-aide-spying-china-maximilian-krah"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:08:33","slug":"afd-politicians-former-aide-convicted-of-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74527","title":{"rendered":"AfD politician\u2019s former aide convicted of spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jian Guo jailed for five years after acting as agent for Chinese intelligence while working for Maximilian Krah<\/p>\n<p>A former aide to a member of parliament for the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for spying on behalf of China.<\/p>\n<p>Jian Guo was convicted on Tuesday of acting as an agent for the Chinese intelligence service while working for Maximilian Krah, a former member of the European parliament who now sits for the AfD in Germany\u2019s Bundestag.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/30\/afd-politician-former-aide-spying-china-maximilian-krah\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jian Guo jailed for five years after acting as agent for Chinese intelligence while working for Maximilian KrahA former aide to a member of parliament for the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party has been sentenced to almost five years in prison&#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":[3391,41,50,667,221,533,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-fur-deutschland-afd","category-asia-pacific","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\/74527","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=74527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74527\/revisions\/74528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}