German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying (apnews.com)

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned that China allegedly is using social networks to try to cultivate lawmakers and other officials as sources. From a report: Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents posing as consultants, headhunters or researchers, primarily on the social networking site LinkedIn. "This is a broad-based attempt to infiltrate in particular parliaments, ministries and government agencies," Maassen said.

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Re:Of course the communist chinese are spying

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, sure. Same goes for the US, since they were caught spying on Germany, and anyone that deals with the US and Germany, since we have spy operations coming out of Hamburg. I'm with you 100%. This shit needs to stop.

Everybody with the means and motive spies

[Baron_Yam]

Next tell me water is wet, I'm waiting on that breaking news with great anticipation!

Intelligence services do intelligence and counter-intelligence work on behalf of domestic political and corporate interests. Specific instances of this are made public when convenient for propaganda purposes.

Unless you really think none of the EU nations is spying on the Chinese...

Re: Everybody with the means and motive spies

[WindBourne]

Absolutely, we are all spying all over. However, China has been stepping it up. Basically, they are focusing less and less on internal matters and more to external. Personally, I have the utmost respect for Merkel, but there are times that I wonder if she should not be a bit more eastern German. And yeah, trump is absolutely the wrong president for this moment. There are some major changes about to happen in.the world dealing with china, and Russia, but esp China. And this traitor allowed himself to be bought.

Nah.

[WindBourne]

It has been there all the time. They are just taking a different tack. It is long past time for the west, esp nato nations, to restore the security approach that we had during the last cold war. After all, both China and Russia see themselves in a cold war with the west.

Re:Nah.

[Baron_Yam]

>They are just taking a different tack.

I prefer the Russian method of having extremely sexy women sleep with men and then waiting for them to say something stupid to impress the women.

I mean, what, the Chinese are going to give me a job offer via LinkedIn, but the Russians send a hot woman to my bed? I know which agency I'm going to turn for.

(Sadly, Putin's never targeted me in a Russian honeypot operation... or my wife has a really solid cover and has stuck around despite me never giving her anything useful.)

After we're done investigating Russian meddling

[Anonymous Coward]

we'll have to do another whole investigation in to the Trump family ties to Gina.

But you missed the fun part

[Anonymous Coward]

When, not if, they reverse engineer the Cambridge Analytica approach, they will be able to use the network to engineer elections, policy, and spending for any number of nations on the planet.

They are in it "for the long game" and nobody else is. Their battlefield they currently fight on is best described in this way:
"What if there was a war, and only one side came"

Every American politician must fight with no less than half of their time, money, and energy for re-election every two years. Their decisions are forced to that time-scale. The Chinese leadership has no equally vast constraint on vision, resources, or execution.