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China complains as the Netherlands warns of its endemic espionage

By Tom Rogan
Published April 18, 2023 5:37pm ET
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China complains as the Netherlands warns of its endemic espionage
Erik Akerboom, director-general of the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, AIVD, painted a grim picture during a press conference in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, Thursday, April 13, 2023, of a growing number of internal and external threats to the rule of law in the Netherlands compounded by Russia's war in Ukraine and international cyber attacks and espionage. | (AP Photo/Mike Corder)


Outlining his 2022 report on threats to the Netherlands, the director-general of that nation’s intelligence service observed that China poses “the biggest threat to the Netherlands’s economic security.”

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