The German intelligence agency has said that in the future, China could cause more problems for Germany than Russia, especially in terms of cyber attacks.

In an interview for SWR radio, Thomas Haldenwang, the president of the agency known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said that "in the long term, China wants to become a leading power in various aspects", "not only in the field of economy and technology, but also political".

"In the long term, China can become the main opponent", he declared.

When asked how the agency he leads is preparing for a possible threat, Haldenwang said that "wherever there is fire, there goes the fire brigade".

In order to successfully fight young hackers, the agency has recently recruited youth who do not have the profile of ordinary workers.

They are young people "who consume a few liters of cola and who do not work according to office hours".

When asked how the agency manages to recruit staff, despite the universal lack of information technology specialists, he said that in the agency he leads, people have the opportunity to defend democracy.

According to him, some tasks are more interesting than business as the work involves competition with Russian and Chinese hackers.

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