Chinese disinformation has aimed to cast doubt on Taiwan’s ability to defend itself on several fronts in the past week. We can point to several examples...
The Taiwanese government has sought to call attention to the detention of three Yiguandao followers in China. The three individuals, surnamed Chiang, Chou, and Hsieh, were detained on charges of "organizing and practicing as members of a cult that undermines law enforcement.” The Mainland Affairs Council, however, has sought to emphasize that Yiguandao is a religion that has millions of followers in Taiwan and that the three were not engaged in political activities, but legitimate religious activity...
The KMT has sought to use similar tactics for Taiwan’s NCC, as it has aimed to do with the Constitutional Court. That is, the KMT has tried to freeze the NCC by mandating that the NCC cannot function without a minimum quorum of members then blocking any appointments that the Lai administration seeks to make to the NCC...
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Interior called for the dissolution of the China Unification Promotion Party. This proves a notable move, in that it proves rare for the government to dissolve political parties on grounds apart from lack of updating relevant contact information, or handing in the necessary documents to stay in operation. This includes political parties that are pro-unification...
An investigation by the Liberty Times, the major newspaper of the pan-Green camp and Taiwan’s most widely read newspaper, showed that 30% of the 456 borough chiefs in Taipei had taken constituents on trips to China that were subsidized by the Chinese government this year...
