China still carrying out police activities in Germany, Berlin says – National | 24CA News
German safety authorities consider that China continues to be conducting police actions on German soil despite the fact that Beijing assured Berlin in February that it had ceased to take action, the German international and inside ministries stated on Monday.
“The security authorities continue to assume that there are two so-called overseas police stations in Germany,” a spokesperson for the inside ministry stated at an everyday press convention.
Berlin known as on Beijing in November to close down extraterritorial police stations within the nation.
“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 international ministry spokesperson stated, including that Berlin was nonetheless in talks with Beijing to resolve the problem.
The inside ministry spokesperson clarified that the police stations in query have been “not fixed-location offices, but mobile facilities” from which Chinese and non-Chinese nationals have been conducting “official duties” on behalf of Beijing.
The Chinese Embassy in Berlin didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.
Germany is reassessing its bilateral relations with China amid elevated wariness of Beijing as a strategic rival even because it stays Berlin’s largest buying and selling associate.
