{"id":132862,"date":"2021-12-22T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinese-spies-have-penetrated-taiwans-military-case-documents-reveal"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:25:00","slug":"chinese-spies-have-penetrated-taiwans-military-case-documents-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinese-spies-have-penetrated-taiwans-military-case-documents-reveal","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spies have penetrated Taiwan\u2019s military, case documents reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-spies-have-penetrated-taiwans-military-case-documents-reveal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s spycatchers are battling a sustained Chinese espionage campaign. Even the security detail of President Tsai Ing-wen has been compromised.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The operation detailed in these documents shows how Beijing allegedly sought out commanders in the Taiwan military and induced them to become spies. It comes amid a series of convictions for military espionage in Taiwan in recent years. Those cases reveal that China has mounted a broader campaign to undermine the democratic island\u2019s military and civilian leadership, corrode its will to fight, extract details of high-tech weapons and gain insights into defense planning, according to senior retired Taiwanese military officers and current counter-espionage agents, as well as former U.S. military and intelligence officers with experience in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s spycatchers are battling a campaign that has compromised senior officers at the heart of the island\u2019s armed forces and government agencies, a steady stream of convictions handed down in the courts shows.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has even penetrated the security detail assigned to protect Taiwan\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen. A retired presidential security officer and a serving military police lieutenant colonel at the unit tasked with protecting the president had their conviction upheld earlier this year for leaking sensitive information about Tsai\u2019s security to a Chinese intelligence agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s spycatchers are battling a sustained Chinese espionage campaign. Even the security detail of President Tsai Ing-wen has been compromised. The operation detailed in these documents shows how Beijing allegedly sought out commanders in the Taiwan military and induced them to become spies. It comes amid a series of convictions for military espionage in Taiwan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}