Eichwede questions threats Ukraine, elections and China

Oct 5

In Eichwede’s complete first-round slot, Jäger calls Ukraine support a core German interest and rejects the idea that ending that war would end Russia’s broader revisionist confrontation. He outlines conditional security, instability, refugee and cost consequences of a Ukrainian defeat. Selen says Russian actors including Storm-1516 and Matryoshka monitored and manipulated state and local electoral discourse, discredited people and election processes, and used AI, bots and wider dissemination ecosystems; he describes faster detection as necessary. Responding to questions about Chinese cars and connected products, he warns of personal-data leakage, state access, misuse and possible shutdown risks, without proving that particular products are spies. He also describes Chinese cyber and insider espionage risks to research, urges protection of critical knowledge and cooperation with research institutions, and explicitly rejects abandoning cooperation altogether.

In his October 5 response to Eichwede, Selen warns of data leakage, possible state access and misuse or shutdown risks in connected Chinese products. He frames this as data sovereignty and system integrity, without declaring specific cars or appliances proven spies. He says Chinese cyber and insider espionage targets technological gaps through German university and other research institutions, advocates safeguarding critical knowledge and close security cooperation, and explicitly rejects abandoning research cooperation altogether.