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Poland detects potential Chinese espionage: president

02.09.2019 15:30
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said on Monday that the country’s counterintelligence services had detected what might have been Chinese espionage activities.
US Vice President Mike Pence and Polands President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Warsaw on September 2, 2019.
US Vice President Mike Pence and Poland's President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Warsaw on September 2, 2019.PAP/Grzegorz Jakubowski

“Poland’s counterintelligence services have detected activities which might have had to do with espionage,” Duda said during a press conference with US Vice President Mike Pence.

He added that "the matter is currently being examined" and “if the prosecutors decide to go ahead with a prosecution then Polish courts will act.”

Pence and Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday signed a deal on security and cooperation in 5G telecoms technology amid growing concerns about Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

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Source: PAP