Four Taiwan Soldiers Charged with Spying for China

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Four Taiwanese soldiers were charged with photographing and leaking confidential information to China. China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since 1949, but Beijing insists the island is part of its territory and has vowed to seize it one day.

There has been a series of spying cases in Taiwan, as China maintains military and political pressure on Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty.

In the latest case, the accused included three members of a military unit in charge of security for the Presidential Office.


Entrance to Presidential Palace in Taipei. (Photo: taipeitravelgeek.com)

A fourth person was a soldier in the defense ministry's information and telecommunications command. They allegedly used their mobile phones to photograph military information which was passed to "Chinese agents."

The four received payments ranging from around NT$260,000 to NT$660,000 ($8,000-$20,000) "depending on the confidentiality level of the military information they provided."

The incidents happened from 2022 to 2024.

Three of the soldiers were discharged before an investigation was launched in August this year following a tip-off to the defense ministry. The fourth was suspended in August.
All four have been detained and charged with corruption and violating national security law for "leaking and delivering confidential information or electromagnetic records for China".

They face a maximum seven years in jail if convicted.

"The Chinese Communist Party's infiltration campaign against us has never stopped," the defense ministry said in a statement, describing the four accused as "treasonous and lawless."

In Sep 2024, an ex-air force instructor was sentenced to 17 years in prison for "aiding the enemy" and delivering military secrets to China.

China’s massive intelligence apparatus poses a serious threat to the much smaller Taiwanese counterintelligence agencies. Beijing employs the ‘grains of sand’ principle of collection, where vast numbers of human and cyber networks vacuum up information ranging from personal data to intellectual property. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) has the resources and personnel to construct a mosaic from all of these thousands of particles of sand put together. Taiwanese and Western intelligence agencies do not have that luxury and must prioritize collection efforts to remain efficient with resources and personnel, a problem China doesn’t have.

Source:

https://www.barrons.com/news/four-taiwan-soldiers-charged-with-spying-for-china-a95860a6



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[Irish_Dem]

1. China is doing the same thing to Taiwan that has been done to the US.

Infiltrate the country with spies and loyalists.

Russia and China took over one of the US major political parties, the GOP.
The GOP sold us to Russia and China in exchange for permanent total power
and access to all US assets.

The same thing Putin and Xi have in Russia.

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. Good morning Irish Dem. Yup and China is doing it with cash, like the Kremlin.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes exactly.

Both China and Russia are involved with sex/drug trafficking and have a great deal of money
to devote to taking over the US.

Good morning to you Corio.