Taiwanese soldiers guarding president’s office were spying for China

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1. Submission Statement: 
   TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese espionage in Taiwan has reached new levels, analysts and officials say, after three soldiers who were tasked with guarding the Taiwanese president’s office were jailed for photographing and selling classified information.

   The three former members of a military battalion responsible for the security of the presidential building, as well as a soldier from a unit focused on information warfare, were sentenced this week to up to seven years in prison.

   “The presidential office should be the most secure place, yet incidents like this still happen. This shows how severe China’s infiltration is in Taiwan,” said Chung Chih-tung, an assistant research fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a government-funded think tank.

   The cases fit into a broader pattern of intimidation by Beijing as it tries to undermine Taiwan’s defenses both militarily and psychologically and push the island democracy to surrender to Chinese Communist Party rule. The effort includes huge military exercises around the island.

   According to prosecutors, soldiers Lai Chong-yu and Chen Wen-hao were recruited by Chinese intelligence agents through a man named Huang Tsung-yi, a Taiwanese citizen accused of acting on Beijing’s behalf to persuade soldiers to sell information to China.

   Huang fled to China before he could be arrested, according to Taiwanese officials.

2. I’ve said this before. Letting Russia get away with land grabbing and making zero concessions is going to set a dangerous precedent on the international stage. It displays that it is open season for conquest and it will escalate into mass nuclearization.

3. Will China even need to invade if they can just influence and corrupt Taiwan instead?

4. Well, that ain’t good.

5. taiwan needs to hit up zelenskyy cause his crew seem air tight than a mf. “slow leaks. gotta air em out” -rick ross

6. Doing what DJT and JDV are attempting with this Greenland, Panama Canal and overlooking Russia on their land grabbing talk will only embolden China to go after Taiwan and SCS (Spratly)

7. The near total saturation of Taiwan with mainland spies is imo the biggest impediment to the West giving Taiwan the most advanced of their weapon systems that they need to deter invasion. As it is now, giving Taiwan F35s and Virginia’s is as good as hand delivering the schematics to Xi. 

8. Treason.

9. China is the new power!

10. …Were they supposed to spy for someone else’s country?

    Oh, wait. I get it now. The headline is intentionally ambiguous to reinforce the bias that the Chinese civil war has ended and that Taiwan is an officially recognized nation.

    Good ole WaPo.

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