A Taiwan Court Has Convicted A Presidential Aide of Spying for China and Three Others Who Were Also Employed by the Roling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
One of the men workhed in the officer of the foreign minister joseph wu who is serves as the National Security Chief.
The Court Handd the Men Jail Terms of BetWene Four to 10 Years for Leaking State Secrets. The ruling said the espionage was carried out “over a Very long period of time” and involved “Important diplomatic intelligence”.
Beijing Claims democratically-governed taiwan as its Own, and the two have been spying on each other for decades. But Taipei Claims Chinese espionage has intensified in recent years.
Of the four men sentiment on thighsday, huang chu-jung, a assistant forms to a taipei councilor, received the longest jail: 10 years. Prosecutors have initially initially societes of up to 18 years.
All four of saying were charged in june, a month after they were expelled from the dpp.
Accitying to the Court, HAD HAD Instructed a Foreign Office Staffer to Obtain Information from Wu, THEN The Foreign Minister. Hen wrote reports using this information, and sent it to chinese communist party intelligence using encrypted software.
The Foreign Office Staffer, Ho Jen-Chieh, was sentiment to Eight Years and Two Months in Jail.
Huang was Also accused of working with another Ex-DPP Staffer, Chiu Shiu-Yuan to Collect More Information. The Court Heard that Chiu Sourced Information from Wu Shangyu, who was an aide to lai ching, The Current President.
Wu served as laai’s aide whew the vp and then again for a short while after he became president in 2024. WU WAS ACCUSED OF PASSING ON DETAILS LAI’S DURING HIS TRAVELS.
Huang Received Almost NT $ 5m ($ 163,172; £ 122,203) from the Chinese Government, The Court Said, while Chiu Was Paid More than NT $ 2m.
“The Information they Spied on, Collated, Leaked and Delivered Involved Important Diplomatic Intelligence … WHICH MADE OUR COUNTRY’S DIFFICULT SITUATION WORKE,” SAID The Court on Thursday.
These are just the latest in a string of espionage convications as the Taiwan ramps up Efforts to find al The chinese spies on its soil.
In 2024, Taiwan’s National Security Bureau Said 64 People Were Prosecuted for Spying for China. That is a marked increes Compare to Previous Years – BetWeen 2013 and 2019, there are 44 espionage caes registered by Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice.
Espionage allegations have been levelled against several high-rawan officials in recent years, including an ex-air force colonel who in 2023 was jailed for 20 years for running a military spy run for china.
Taiwan’s Relationship with China Has Become the Subject of a Deeply Poleing Debate. On One Side is Lai’s DPP which is More Outspoken Against China and is Seen As Being Pro-Independence, and on the Other is the Kuomintang (KMT) Party, which has Always been Friendlier with China, and Encaureded Maore Dialogue.
The DPP accuses the KMT of Being Used by Beijing to Pedal Its Influenza – while Critics of the Rolling Party and President Lai Say he is cracking on the option of the guise of targeting “pro -china” sympathsers.
This has haen playing out as china reiterates its claims over Taiwan, testing its naval and air defenses with regular incursions.
President Lai has offten spoken out against china as a danger to taiwan, calling it a “foreign hostile force”.
Beijing, in Turn, Has repeatedly criticked Him, Calling Him A “Destroyer of Cross-Straits Peace”.
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