The Minister of Defense of the Netherlands Kajsa Ollongren claims that state-backed Chinese cyber spies gained access to a Dutch military network last year, reports Reuters. Intelligence agencies called it part of a trend of Chinese political espionage against the Netherlands and its allies. The article notes that this is the first time that the Netherlands has publicly accused China of cyber espionage, as tensions between the two countries are growing in the field of national security. “It is important to ensure that espionage activities of this nature committed by China become public knowled…