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Lucinda Creighton: Ireland ‘easy prey’ as true motives of malign foreign actors emerge across EU
The arrests in Germany of Chinese spies may seem like a slightly fantastical scene from a John le Carré spy novel, but the operations are very real
The West has been slow in understanding the extent of the malign objectives of the People’s Republic of China, as it has flexed its economic and political muscles over the past two decades.
Events of the past few weeks have shown that Germany, China’s longtime advocate in Europe, has had to change position rapidly.
The close economic ties between the two countries, and the longevity of the relationship, has, it turns out, left Germany more ...
