While the United States warns the international community about Chinese espionage, German officials raided nine properties in an effort to crack a Chinese spy ring involving a former European Union diplomat, according to reports.
“I can confirm that we are carrying out an investigation into intelligence agent activity,” Markus Schmitt, a spokesman for German federal prosecutors, said Thursday.
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