KMT official Alex Tsai has denied the allegations of threatening Chinese Defector Wang Liqiang to retract his story about spying for China and blaming the DPP for having bribed him to do so.

The News Lens
Date: 2020/01/09
By: Daphne K. Lee

Australian newspaper The Age reported on Wednesday that the Chinese defector Wang Liqiang was allegedly threatened to retract his story about spying for China and influencing Taiwan's elections. 

Kuomintang Deputy Secretary-General Alex Tsai, who was suspected of attempting to coerce Wang into recording a video against the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), promptly dismissed the allegations in a press conference today. 

"I've never asked him (Wang) to release any statement," Tsai said to the press, declining that he has ever conducted any inappropriate behavior. 

Tsai, along with a China-based businessman Sun Tianqun, has allegedly sent Wang a script to accuse the DPP of bribing him to lie about China's influence campaigns in Taiwan. If such a video was publicized, it could be detrimental to both the DPP and incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen in the January 11 elections.     [FULL  STORY\]