A foreign ministry spokesman said that Berlin was still in talks with Beijing to resolve the issue. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - The German security authorities believe that China is still conducting police activities on German soil even though Beijing assured Berlin in February that it had ceased to do so, the German foreign and interior ministries said on Monday.
“The security authorities continue to assume that there are two so-called overseas police stations in Germany,” a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said at a regular press conference.“The Chinese side got back to us at the beginning of February and said that these so-called ‘service stations’, as the Chinese side called them, had been closed,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said, adding that Berlin was still in talks with Beijing to resolve the issue.
The Interior Ministry spokesman clarified that the police stations in question were “not fixed-location offices, but mobile facilities” from which Chinese and non-Chinese nationals were conducting “official duties” on behalf of Beijing.Germany is amid increased wariness of Beijing as a strategic rival, even as it remains Berlin’s largest trading partner. REUTERS
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