Causing a stir Germany exposing that US intelligence was monitoring the meeting of his representatives German Ministry of Defense And Chinese mission. It’s on the news leaked documents, which fell into the possession of a 21-year-old member of the US National Guard who was arrested and charged with serious charges. The German authorities are currently investigating whether the suspicions of targeted surveillance are true.

A meeting of representatives of the German Ministry of Defense and the Chinese mission is coming.

The secret report of the US government contains just separate expressions corresponding to the content of the February talks. The exposure was published by the German newspaper Zeit, having read the corresponding report called “Communications Monitoring”. After the publication, the German intelligence services believe that the employees of the German Ministry of Defense were indeed monitored by the American intelligence services. German Defense Ministry officials reportedly made it clear to the Chinese delegation at a February 20 meeting in Berlin that “further defense cooperation is not possible as long as Beijing operates in an environment of opacity and total isolation.” This was the first visit of a Chinese delegation to Germany since the start of the pandemic. At the same time, the same report states that it is known in Berlin that “the People’s Republic of China has launched, thanks to strong US pressure, a charm campaign.” The Chinese delegates can be seen reading their positions from a note based on a detailed report.

The US government report does not specify how this information came into Washington’s possession and which departments were responsible for the information, the Zeit newspaper writes. The FISA designation on the report may mean that targeted surveillance is legal and ordered by a special US court. This is a 1978 law passed by Jimmy Carter after the Watergate presidency that establishes specific conditions for monitoring and gathering information about foreign countries. Email, chats, and conversation monitoring may fall under this category. This is now being considered in Berlin, although former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s disgust when she found out that the Americans were spying on her cell phone is legendary: “Spying between friends? This is completely unacceptable.” German journalists noted yesterday that then US President Barack Obama’s promise that this would not happen again was probably limited to Merkel’s face. Berlin is currently trying to keep a low profile, knowing that it, too, depends on sharing information with its American partners. “First we need to talk to the Americans and find out how we got into surveillance,” Green Party spokesman Konstantin von Notch told German television.