APPROACHED: Michael Tsai said that the TAO tried to invite him to a conference in China and a promised meeting with the CCP’s leader eight months after he left office
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 03, 2019
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
Former ministry of national defense Michael Tsai (蔡明憲) yesterday called for greater caution
Former minister of national defense Michael Tsai, center, yesterday speaks at a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei as Northern Taiwan Society deputy chairman Li Chuan-hsin, left, Association of University Professors president Lai Cheng-chang, second left, and former National Security Council deputy secretary-general Parris Chang, second right, listen.
Photo: CNA
“China’s infiltration programs target not only the Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] and the media, but also people in the pan-blue camp and even those in the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] and the pan-green camp,” Tsai told a news conference in Taipei.
A Taiwanese entrepreneur doing business in China had relayed a message to him from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), he said.
“The TAO wanted to invite me to attend an international conference in China and they said I would be received by the leader of the CCP,” he said. [FULL STORY]
