{"id":96391,"date":"2020-10-26T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96391"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:25:58","slug":"sunday-london-times-german-spy-chief-gerhard-schindler-china-is-poised-to-dominate-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96391","title":{"rendered":"Sunday [London] Times&#8211;German spy chief Gerhard Schindler: China is poised to dominate the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is close to \u201cworld domination\u201d and Europe must wake up to the danger, a former head of Germany\u2019s foreign intelligence agency has told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Schindler, who led the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 2011 to 2016, said Germany needed to curb its \u201cstrategic dependence\u201d on Beijing and ban Huawei from its 5G mobile phone network.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that Angela Merkel\u2019s liberal approach to the 2015 migrant crisis had left Germany with a \u201clarge reservoir\u201d of young Muslim men susceptible to violence and jihadist ideology, and that the true scale of the danger was only now becoming clear.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book Wer hat Angst vorm BND? (Who\u2019s Afraid of the BND?), Mr Schindler, 68, argues that Germany has hobbled its spy agencies with unnecessary red tape and neglected some of the most serious threats to its security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/world\/europe-must-wake-up-to-china-threat-warns-ex-spy-chief-gerhard-schindler-7v8z7x69t\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">German spy chief Gerhard Schindler: China is poised to dominate the world <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygPorTl4B8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ygPorTl4B8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aynur (@Aynur35423962) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aynur35423962\/status\/1320674665086521344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is close to \u201cworld domination\u201d and Europe must wake up to the danger, a former head of Germany\u2019s foreign intelligence agency has told The Times. Gerhard Schindler, who led the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 2011 to 2016, said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96391\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,200,478,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","category-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96395,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96391\/revisions\/96395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}