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Taiwan Quick Take: NSB denies spy claim

The National Security Bureau (NSB) denied a Chinese court's accusation that it had asked a local think tank to gather intelligence about China. The NSB made the denial on Tuesday after a Chinese court sentenced journalist Ching Cheong (程翔) to five years in prison on grounds he had worked for the Taipei-based Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies (FICSS), which the court claimed has been charged with collecting China-related intelligence under the NSB's leadership. The Chinese court ruled last week that Ching, a correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper, had leaked China's state secrets to the think tank. The NSB said in a statement that the court ruling was "sheer speculation" and "absolutely not factual." "Although we have commissioned the FICSS to conduct academic research on some subjects in recent years, we have never asked it to spy for us," the NSB statement said.

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