{"id":61600,"date":"2024-02-02T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/taiwan-china-spies-beijing-espionage"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T02:01:29","slug":"a-race-against-time-taiwan-strives-to-root-out-chinas-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61600","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A race against time\u2019: Taiwan strives to root out China\u2019s spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing has increased its efforts to recruit Taiwanese people, the number of spying cases has risen<\/p>\n<p>In November, a Taiwan court heard accusations that two serving soldiers had accepted bribes from Chinese agents to record a video declaring their loyalty to China and their intention to defect in the event of a war. The video reportedly made its way into Chinese propaganda materials.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, a conviction over a similar accusation <a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/society\/202312080016\">was upheld<\/a> against a retired army colonel. The colonel was found guilty of having accepted monthly payments totalling more than half a million Taiwan dollars (\u00a312,500) to delay his retirement for years and serve as a spy. Local media reports said the colonel also posed for a photo holding a handwritten note, pledging his loyalty to Beijing\u2019s cause of annexing Taiwan to the Chinese state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/taiwan-china-spies-beijing-espionage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing has increased its efforts to recruit Taiwanese people, the number of spying cases has risenIn November, a Taiwan court heard accusations that two serving soldiers had accepted bribes from Chinese agents to record a video declaring their loya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,667,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600\/revisions\/61601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}