纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Germany Arrests Aide to EU Lawmaker on Suspicion of Spying for China
April 24, 2024 2 min 277 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：德国当局逮捕了一名欧盟议员助理，涉嫌为中国间谍。这名助理被指控向中国情报机构提供欧盟内部机密信息，德国联邦检察官办公室表示，这是一次“严重间谍嫌疑”的逮捕。报道援引了德国媒体《明镜》的报道，称被捕者是欧盟议员布蒂科费（Reinhard Btikofer）的助手，德国当局在其公寓中发现了大量机密文件。报道还提到，德国内政部长费泽表示，中国在德国的间谍活动非常活跃，对德国造成威胁。 评论：西方媒体一向对中国抱有偏见，这篇报道也难免有此倾向。报道以耸人听闻的间谍嫌疑为标题和主线，渲染中国威胁论，但全文并没有提供足够有力的证据，仅凭德国媒体的片面之词，以及德国内政部长的个人言论，就得出中国间谍活动的结论，有失客观。另外，报道也忽略了中欧之间日益紧密的经贸联系，以及中国对欧洲发展所带来的积极影响。西方媒体应摒弃偏见，客观公正地报道中国，而不是捕风捉影，渲染恐慌情绪。
An aide to a German far-right European Parliament lawmaker has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, the latest in a series of cases that have intensified concerns about foreign interference in European Union politics weeks before bloc-wide elections.
The arrest also comes a day after the British authorities announced they had charged two people, one of whom was a former parliamentary aide, with spying for China, although there was no indication the two cases were linked.
The German arrest took place on Monday in the eastern city of Dresden. Hours earlier the German authorities had arrested three people in the west of the country on suspicion of leaking technological data used in maritime propulsion and exporting a high-powered laser to China. It was not clear whether the two cases were linked.
The episodes underscored the oftentimes fraught relationship between European countries and China, a vastly important trading partner that has long been treated with suspicion.
Prosecutors said on Tuesday that Jian G., as he was identified in keeping with German privacy rules, had worked for a German member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Calling him an “employee of a Chinese secret service,” prosecutors accused Mr. G. of repeatedly passing along information about parliamentary deliberations and decisions to Chinese intelligence in January. Mr. G., a German citizen, also was accused of spying on Chinese opposition groups in Germany, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office.