Citing state data, Lai said 64 people were charged for Chinese spying last year, three days more than in 2021. He said the majority of them were current or former defense leaders.
” Some are worried that our country, hard-earned freedom and democracy and wealth may be lost bit by bit according to these control efforts and manipulation”, he said.
By making these attempts, Lai said China constituted what Taiwan’s Anti-Infiltration Act defined as “foreign angry troops”.
The senator proposed 17 legal and economic countermeasures, including the rigorous assessment of Taiwan visits or citizenship applications by Taiwanese citizens, and proposals to begin the job of the military court.
Lai even said his government would make “necessary adjustments” to the flows of cash, people and engineering across the sea. He did not elaborate.
In addition, he said the government would matter “reminders” to Chinese actors and musicians performing in China on their” statements and actions”, a reaction to what Taipei sees as an ongoing Foreign campaign to stress music stars to make pro-Beijing responses.
” We have no choice but to take more active actions”.
Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said this week it was “entirely natural” for Taiwan people, including artists, to express their recognition of China amid a public outcry in Taiwan following posts on Chinese social media by several Taiwan celebrities calling the island” a province of China”.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control.
Taiwan’s government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s people can decide their future.