The opposition yesterday urged prosecutors to identify all Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members who are colluding with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Ho Jen-chieh (何仁傑), a former assistant of National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) when he was minister of foreign affairs, was yesterday detained in connection with a spying case.
Several other DPP members have been accused of being involved in national security breaches, including Presidential Office consultant Wu Shang-yu (吳尚雨), former DPP staff member Chiu Shih-yuan (邱世元) and councilor assistant Huang Chu-jing (黃取榮), who were detained in February.
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday called on the governing DPP to investigate and penalize anyone spying for China, regardless of their political party.
Colluding with the CCP and betraying Taiwan is an severe matter, Chu said.
“The KMT undoubtedly loves Taiwan and would strive for the Republic of China’s benefits,” he added.
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) caucus yesterday wrote on Facebook that the DPP government is always advocating for the takedown of the CCP’s accomplices, but appears to be a “national team of Chinese spies.”
It also alleged that the CCP has infiltrated the government, from the Presidential Office to the national security and foreign affairs agencies.
DPP legislators call on the public to recall opposition lawmakers, but it allegedly has many spies, it said, adding that it was turning the nation into a single-party regime like China.
President William Lai (賴清德), who doubles as DPP chairman, should investigate how long the party has been infiltrated and how many DPP members have been secretly spying for China during his tenure, it said.
Meanwhile, KMT Legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯), who on Wednesday falsely accused a National Security Council senior specialist of spying for China and later apologized for wrongly using his photo, said she was actually referring to another man with the same name who worked as Wu’s assistant when he was foreign minister.
Hsu yesterday said that prosecutors obtained information on Ho Jen-chieh’s alleged espionage activities as early as February, when Huang was detained and held incommunicado.
However, they failed to promptly act on the information, virtually giving him an opportunity to collude with accomplices or escape, she said.
Additional reporting by Liu Wan-lin
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