Is one of China’s largest companies spying at a Belgian airport?

From spy balloons over the US to concerns around telecommunications company Huawei, tensions between the West and China are ramping up as China increasingly establishes itself as a global power – and one forecast by some to surpass the US economically, at least for a while. The latest political tiff comes not from the US, but from Belgium, where the country’s state security service (VSSE) said they would be looking into Chinese holding group, Alibaba, enquiring into “possible spying and/or interference activities” at Liège Airport, where the Chinese company houses its main European logistics centre.