Telegraph: The former senior official, who ran the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, has also been accused of remaining in “close contact” with a Chinese former army general.
…Mr Hanning appears to have met Mr Wang – considered one of the foremost experts on Germany in China – at conferences and the latter thanked him for his “hints and explanations” in the foreword to a book published in 2007.
The pair also sat on a board of advisers for a German-Chinese eco park in Qingdao, a port city in eastern China…