China drew up list of rewards for contacting potential spies: prosecutors
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Hours after accusations he had been involved in a Chinese spy
New Party official Wang Ping-chung at his news conference Tuesday. (By Central News Agency)
ring, New Party spokesman Wang Ping-chung (王炳忠) denied Tuesday that he had accepted US$200,000 (NT$5.9 million) from China’s government to fund his online activities.
Earlier in the day, Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭), a former Chinese student who is appealing against a 14-month prison sentence for trying to recruit a spy, faced new charges that he had been using Wang and two other New Party officials to set up a spy ring.
A news release from prosecutors alleged that the Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦), the Chinese government department in charge of relations with Taiwan, had supplied funds to help two initiatives Wang was involved in, the Fire News site and the New China Youth group.
The ultimate aim was to infiltrate Taiwan’s military and obtain confidential information, according to a Central News Agency report. [FULL STORY]