China’s global infiltration
German police arrested an assistant of a member of the European Parliament who belonged to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on suspicion of spying for China, the German Office of the Federal Prosecutor said on April 23.
The circumstances of the case were particularly serious, they added.
“Jian G,” who was an assistant to European Parliament member Maximilian Krah, was suspected of providing Chinese intelligence services with information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament.
The assistant was also said to have spied on Chinese opposition figures in Germany.
Authorities arrested “Jian G,” whose full name is Guo Jian (郭健), in Dresden on April 22 and searched his apartment, the police said.
A similar case came to light in September last year, when police in the UK arrested a 29-year-old British man named Christopher Cash on charges of espionage.
Cash had worked as a researcher for Alicia Kearns, a member of parliament and House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chair, while also working for China, the Sunday Times said.
The suspect had been in frequent contact with several other members of parliament, including former British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman and Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat.
Going further back to January 2022, the UK’s domestic intelligence agency the Security Service, told members of parliament that it believed British-Chinese lawyer Christine Lee (李貞駒) to be an agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
She was “engaged in political interference activities” in coordination with the CCP’s United Front Work Department while being in contact with several members of parliament, the agency said.
Turning to the Legislative Yuan, since its current session commenced on Feb. 20, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators led by their caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁)have been proposing ludicrous motions.
Most notable are ones designed to please China while undermining Taiwan’s Constitution and political system.
This has caused confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties, destabilizing Taiwanese society and scaring foreign investors.
After leading a delegation of KMT legislators to visit Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Chairman Wang Huning (王滬寧) in Beijing on April 27, the KMT has even been following China’s rules as to what to call Taiwan.
What unspoken reason could there possibly be for such a display of shameless groveling, selling out Taiwan and carrying out the CCP’s mission of disrupting and undermining the nation?
Could it be that the KMT, too, has been thoroughly infiltrated by China?
Muduo
Taipei
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