Taiwan urges signing of MOU with US to combat disinformation

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/16
By: Vincent Chen (陳文凡)

Washington, Oct. 15 (CNA) Taiwan's deputy National Security Council (NSC) chief on Tuesday called on the United States to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with his country as part of a joint effort to combat disinformation.

Discussing China's influence operations against Taiwan at a U.S. conference, Vincent Chen (陳文凡) said Beijing has attempted to influence Taiwan's major elections for years.

Citing NSC intelligence, Chen said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established a multi-departmental task force in late 2017 to evaluate election related action in the run up to Taiwan's November 2018 local government elections when Taiwanese voted for 22 top jobs in the nation's special municipalities, counties and cities.

In those elections the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was heavily defeated.
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