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2023-04-28 Europe
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Die Zeit: US eavesdropped on German Defense Ministry talks
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] American intelligence agencies monitored closed talks between representatives of the defense departments of Germany and China in February of this year. This was reported by Die Zeit, Tagesschau and the ARD TV channel, citing a US intelligence report leaked to the Web.
| Everyone spies on everyone else. Periodically a specific instance of this ongoing behaviour becomes public, allowing the observed party to wax loudly indignant for their voters. |
Representatives of the German Defense Ministry and Chinese military circles held a closed meeting on February 20. In one of the documents that got on the Internet, which was later deleted, it is said about the content of the meeting.
US intelligence indicated, in particular, that the German Defense Ministry is refusing deeper cooperation with China, as it expects greater transparency from Beijing.
The document also stated that the Germans knew about the policy of "charm" that the representatives of the People's Republic of China pursued during a visit to Europe in the face of increased political pressure from the United States. The Germans, as was pointed out, consider their position to be a confirmation of solidarity with Washington.
The German TV channel noted that the content of the document is not as remarkable as the very fact of American surveillance of German government agencies. The data on the negotiations are marked as "top secret", and "reconnaissance by means of communications" is indicated as the method of obtaining them.
Editions Die Zeit and Tagesschau added that Berlin officially informed the US Embassy about the negotiations with the Chinese side and this is the absurdity of the incident.
Washington did not respond to requests from publications asking them to confirm the authenticity of excerpts from the reports. There has been no official response from the German government yet.
As REGNUM reported , the US Department of Defense is investigating a leak to the Network of classified materials with information about the state of Ukrainian troops and Washington and NATO's plans to strengthen them. Earlier in April, US National Guard Air Force soldier Jack Teixeira was detained in connection with the leak.
The leak, among other things, made it possible to reveal the US government's surveillance of UN Secretary General António Guterres. It follows from the documents that the secretary general was spied on because of his "willingness to meet the interests of Russia", for example, in the situation with the grain deal.
The representative of the UN Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric expressed concern over reports of wiretapping of Guterres talks. First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Novikov (KPRF), commenting on the incident, said that the United States has ceased to be a state that is capable of ensuring the normal functioning of the UN. Therefore, it is time to think about locating the headquarters of an international organization in another country.
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