SOFT ON SPIES:One legislator’s draft amendment would increase the maximum sentence for espionage from ‘no more than five years’ to ‘at least three years’ in prison

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 12, 2017
By: Tsen Wei-chen  /  Staff reporter

The Executive Yuan and lawmakers are readying draft amendments to the National Security Act (國家安全法), which are to be submitted to the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee for review on Wednesday.

The calls for amendments came in the wake of espionage cases in which rulings were perceived by some lawmakers to be too lenient, triggering concerns about national security.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Wang Ding-yu (王定宇), Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) and Liu Shih-fang (劉世芳) have each drafted punishments for Chinese spies and spies working with China.

Wang’s draft amendment categorizes the receiver of an information leak into “foreign nations,” “China” and “the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and the People’s Liberation Army [PLA].”    [FULL  STORY]