Another person working close to Taiwan’s top leadership has been accused of spying for China. It’s the latest in a string of espionage cases plaguing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and is prompting discussions about national security laws.
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00:00Yet another person close to Taiwan's top leadership has been accused of spying for
00:05China.
00:06It's the latest in a string of espionage cases plaguing Taiwan's ruling Democratic
00:11Progressive Party.
00:13A man surnamed He has been accused of gathering and leaking information regarding top Taiwanese
00:18officials to Beijing while he worked under Joseph Wu, the former foreign minister.
00:24Wu is now the Secretary General of the National Security Council.
00:28He has since been expelled from the DPP and is being held incommunicado.
00:33Joseph Wu's office has released a statement saying that they don't comment on individual
00:37cases but that the man in question left the foreign ministry in March 2024.
00:43They went on to say that they agree that people who betrayed the nation should be subjected
00:47to the most severe punishment and that they support the judicial system handling these
00:52cases justly and according to the law, regardless of who's involved.
00:56But opposition party lawmakers are berating the DPP, even insinuating that breaches that
01:02happened under Wu's watch could have contributed to Taiwan losing eight of its few remaining diplomatic
01:07allies while he was foreign minister.
01:10Some DPP lawmakers have said that the espionage cases show they are the party standing up to China and that they're the party Beijing is most concerned about because, quote, you spy on enemies, not friends.
01:25This is at least the fifth case involving an aide or advisor to a top DPP official, including one former advisor to the president himself, and it's pushing the DPP to review a bunch of national security amendments to weed out so-called Chinese Communist Party middlemen.
02:14One opposition lawmaker is saying that these amendments are an attempt to smear their party, the party generally considered to be closer to China, and to label their lawmakers as spies, morphing this cross-strait espionage issue into a partisan issue.
02:33Klein Wang, Chris Ma and Rhys Ayers in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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