Posted on 03/06/2021 4:24:37 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
TAIPEI: Four retired Taiwanese military intelligence officers – including a major general – have been indicted for spying for China, prosecutors said Saturday.
The quartet was charged with developing a spying network and collecting confidential information for Beijing, the Taipei district prosecutors’ office said.
The two sides have been spying on each other since the Nationalists fled to the island to set up a rival government in 1949, having lost a civil war on the mainland to the communists.
China claims self-ruled, democratic Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.
Two Taiwanese former colonels were recruited by a Chinese national security official in the southern province of Guangdong, the government lawyers said, and had introduced several colleagues to the official since 2012.
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It has been a LONG time since I have been in China or Taiwan, but I’m not sure I understand how officers of one of the two sides could coerced, to back the other side.
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Confiscate everything they own. Execute...next!
This is between the Chinamen. I’m sure the perps would prefer to have a justice system like ours.
You’re an idiot who should keep his mouth shut.
“It has been a LONG time since I have been in China or Taiwan, but I’m not sure I understand how officers of one of the two sides could coerced, to back the other side.”
Chinese nationalism. There are still more than a few Chinese supremacists in Taiwan. They would be happy to be the ChiCom puppets over Taiwan.
They should be jailed.
I would not want to be in their place right now.
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