The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Germany is China’s chief diplomatic mission to Germany. The mission was established on October 11, 1972, following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Federal Republic of Germany. The embassy issued a sharp rebuke to the German authorities in April 2024 after three German nationals were arrested on suspicion of spying for China on the embassy’s behalf, and transferring information on technology with potential military uses. “We call on Germany to desist from exploiting the espionage accusation to politically manipulate the image of China and defame China,” a spokesperson for the embassy said in an e-mailed response to the Reuters news agency. Several years earlier, in October 2021, the embassy courted controversy by disinviting two German journalists from a scheduled public talk at a Confucius Institute in Germany about their biography of Xi Jinping. The order to stop the event reportedly came from the Chinese consul general in Düsseldorf. ccording to news reports, a staff member at the Confucius Institute had told the canceled journalists that “you cannot talk about Xi Jinping as a normal person; he is supposed to be untouchable and unmentionable now.”