Dutch secret service focuses on China and Chinese

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Since a few years the Dutch secret service, called the AIVD, is a little bit less secret and publishes annual reports on new trends.Today was the day of its publication and a set of press conferences. Remarkable: China and the Chinese was three times mentioned. (Here is a summery in DeGeleDraak,  offering also a link to the whole report; as you might imagine, both are in Dutch.)
First it mentions the attacks by Chinese hackers on different networks in the Netherlands. Both companies and the government are on the receiving end. The head of the AIVD just told in an interview that there was no prove the Chinese government was backing those attacks, but they were there anyway. (Just today also the news broke that Chinese hackers downloaded all the information of the JSF fighter plane the Dutch air force wants to buy in the US. Dutch parliament is still trying to get the information they need for decide on this purchase. I happy to pass on that information, if somebody lays his hands on it.)
China - and the Dutch secret service does not say who exactly - is also trying to get more influence on the Chinese communities in the Netherlands, the report says. Chinese in Holland are used for intelligence operations, it says.
More interesting is that the Dutch AIVD is noticing that China's interest is not limited to the Chinese community, but is also trying actively to influence decision making processes, for example in politics.
To be honest, that I actually find the least worrying part: it is about time China gets its lobbying practices a bit in line of what is common between nations. Of course other countries try to influence the Netherlands - for example by trying to sell the much too expensive JSF to the Netherlands. The Dutch government should provide funding to teach Chinese how to become part of the lobbying circus, not let its secret service complain about it.