“And all the King’s horses and all the King’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again”

German spy chief Gerhard Schindler: China is poised to dominate the world

#TAGG https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/europe-must-wake-up-to-china-threat-warns-ex-spy-chief-gerhard-schindler-7v8z7x69t

“Gerhard Schindler, who led the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 2011 to 2016, said Germany needed to curb its “strategic dependence” on Beijing and ban Huawei from its 5G mobile phone network.”

“He also warned that Angela Merkel’s liberal approach to the 2015 migrant crisis had left Germany with a “large reservoir” of young Muslim men susceptible to violence and jihadist ideology, and that the true scale of the danger was only now becoming clear.”

““China is going about things very cleverly, very quietly, but all the same with an astonishingly consistent strategy, and it is a concern that we in Europe hardly notice this dominant behaviour,” Mr Schindler said.

“Mr Schindler said Huawei’s technology was so far ahead of its European rivals that Germany could no longer tell if “back doors” were being planted in its networks to siphon information to Beijing”

“The former spymaster is more relaxed about Russia, arguing that Germany should build further cultural and economic ties with Moscow and work with President Putin in Libya and Syria.”

Our outgoing head of Mi5 agrees: https://twitter.com/maajidnawaz/status/1317085440969760778