{"id":84074,"date":"2025-05-08T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84074\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:59:17","slug":"chinese-cyber-menace-exceeds-threat-from-russia-dutch-spy-chief-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84074\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief\u00a0warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, Russia\u2019s defense spending reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2025\/unprecedented-rise-global-military-expenditure-european-and-middle-east-spending-surges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated $149 billion<\/a>, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute \u2014 a 38 percent increase from 2023 and double the level from 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is producing much more artillery, also with help from other countries, than they need for the war with Ukraine,\u201d Reesink said. He noted that Russia is not only replenishing depleted stockpiles but also moving new artillery units toward NATO borders, including the Baltic countries and Finland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13006928-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6575139\"  \/>Russia\u2019s defense spending reached an estimated $149 billion. | Anatoly Maltsev\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s an indication for us that they are building up capability,\u201d he said, while emphasizing that MIVD does not currently foresee Putin initiating a new war.<\/p>\n<p>Reesink estimated that once \u2014 or if \u2014 a settlement with Ukraine is reached, Russia could be ready for a new conflict within a year, assuming its military production stays at current levels and the Kremlin maintains its political appetite for combat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Netherlands, like the rest of NATO countries, is in a phase of enhanced readiness program to make sure that we&#8217;re ready if that occurs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost ministries have faced budget cuts \u2014 except defense \u2014 and at the political level there\u2019s little debate about the need to prepare,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were a little bit reluctant over the past 20, 30 years, I must admit, but now that awareness is back again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, Russia\u2019s defense spending reached an estimated $149 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1395,13507,4601,3457,30825,32,33,28284,2817,332,3053,49,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-84074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-cyber-diplomacy","10":"tag-cyber-espionage","11":"tag-cybersecurity","12":"tag-cybersecurity-and-data-protection","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-elections-in-europe","16":"tag-intelligence","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-the-netherlands","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114471158737524767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}