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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/24/content_1246266.htm Mainland smashes Taiwan spy ring www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-24 13:23:42BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- State security departments of the Chinese mainland have smashed a ring of intelligence agents, arresting 24 spies from Taiwan and 19 mainlanders involved, a spokesman for the state security authorities said here Wednesday. ??The intelligence departments of Taiwan have never given up their attempts to spy on the mainland, the spokesman said, noting that these spies conducted activities in violation of the law. The law never allows anyone to threaten the safety and interests of the mainland, and moreover, what these spies did may bring catastrophes and bitterness to the people of Taiwan, the spokesman said. The state security departments, which captured and interrogated the spies, have behaved strictly in accordance with the law, are protecting their rights, and providing them with daily necessities and medical services. The spies are in good health. All those arrested in this case have expressed their gratitude to the state security departments for the humanitarian treatment they have received. Currently, the case is being further investigated, though thesespies have confessed all their crimes, the spokesman said. Enditem ==================== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28830-2003Dec24.html China Arrests 43 Alleged Spies Move Increases Effort to Undermine Taiwanese President By Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, December 25, 2003; Page A18 BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- China stepped up its campaign to undermine President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan on Wednesday by announcing the arrest of 24 people from the island and 19 Chinese citizens on charges of espionage, one of the largest roundups of alleged spies ever acknowledged by the country's security services. The announcement, made by the official New China News Agency and the government's Taiwan affairs office, did not identify those detained or provide other details of the arrests. It came at a time of increased tensions in the region. Chen has launched a pro-independence reelection campaign and Beijing, in return, has threatened war. Taiwan's leading spy agency, the Military Intelligence Bureau, denied any of its personnel had been arrested, and a presidential spokesman, James Huang, said in a telephone interview that Chen had received no information suggesting China had detained a large number of Taiwanese residents. But opposition lawmakers in Taiwan said they had been in contact with the families of five Taiwanese businessmen who disappeared in China this month. They said China's State Security Ministry served a written notice to the family of one businessman indicating he had been arrested on spying charges, and they provided reporters with a copy of the document, which appeared authentic. China and Taiwan separated during the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. Beijing claims Taiwan is part of China and has threatened to go to war if the self-governing island of 23 million formally declares independence. Tensions between the two have been running high for weeks. With Taiwan's presidential election in three months, Chen has been using increasingly strident anti-China rhetoric in his campaign speeches and plans to hold a referendum demanding Beijing stop aiming missiles at Taiwan. China has condemned the referendum as a move toward independence, and the Bush administration has urged Taiwan to cancel the vote, which it has described as destabilizing and unnecessary. A Hong Kong newspaper, the Ming Pao Daily, which Chinese officials use to leak information, reported the arrests Monday and quoted sources as saying Taiwanese spies were exposed after Chen specified in a Nov. 30 speech the location of Chinese military bases with 496 missiles aimed at Taiwan. Chen's aides rejected the claim, saying the information about China's missile deployment was publicly available. In a telephone interview, Elmer Fung, an opposition politician in Taiwan with close ties to China, accused Chen's government of ignoring the businessmen who may have been helping Taiwan's intelligence agencies and have disappeared. He said five families have sought his help, but he declined to name them, saying they had requested anonymity. "Regardless of whether they are spies, the president can't deny that these people are missing and probably have been arrested," Fung said. "He's done nothing to help them and instead is trying to escape responsibility." Reached by telephone, the wife of one of the missing businessmen said she lost contact with her husband in mid-December and soon discovered that two of his friends in other Chinese cities had vanished at about the same time. She said her husband was innocent of the spying charges, and she was worried Chinese authorities detained him by mistake in the crackdown. "We're just ordinary people," said the woman, who asked that she and her husband not be identified because she feared Chinese authorities might punish her husband. "After so many years of reform and opening up, we hope the Chinese government can close the case quickly and let him go." Taiwan and China have spied on each other for years, and the United States relies in part on intelligence gathered by Taiwan. Over the past two months, Taiwan has announced the arrests of three agents for China on the island. Four years ago, China executed an army general and a colonel for selling secrets to Taiwan. Special correspondent Tim Culpan in Taipei contributed to this report. ==================== http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,227031,00.html? Spy arrests: Taiwan dismisses new report China media report arrest of 24 Taiwanese and 19 Chinese, but Chen administration calls it a smokescreen designed to hurt it at the polls BEIJING - China's state-run media yesterday confirmed that a Taiwanese spy ring had been smashed while the Chen administration scrambled to issue further denials in Taiwan, hoping to minimise the damage that the report could do to its re-election bid next year. Quoting a spokesman for China's state security authorities, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday that 24 Taiwanese spies and 19 of their mainland Chinese accomplices had been arrested. This confirmed a report run two days earlier by Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News. But the Taiwan government of President Chen Shui-bian quickly dismissed the reports, saying the news was a ploy by Beijing to influence the presidential election on March 20. 'We must unite together and not be deceived by rumours, because, as we all know, the Beijing authorities have a great deal of tactics designed to disturb this election,' Vice-President Annette Lu told reporters. 'In my opinion, the so-called Taiwanese spy case is no more than a smokescreen they threw up on purpose to confuse the Taiwanese people,' she added. Taiwan's Military Information Bureau has also dismissed Ming Pao's report as 'untrue'. However, according to some analysts, China's rare and swift admission of the espionage scandal could cast Mr Chen as irresponsible and hurt his re-election bid. In 1999, a major-general and a senior colonel in China were executed on charges of spying for Taiwan. According to many who followed that incident, their cover was blown because Mr Lee Teng-hui, then Taiwan's president, made a public remark that he had dared China in its 1996 lobbing of missiles against the island because he knew from intelligence that they were dummies. On Monday, when Ming Pao reported that Chinese intelligence officers had caught 21 Taiwanese and 15 Chinese, it also said that the arrests resulted from Mr Chen's announcement of what he knew about the weapons that China had arrayed against Taiwan. Mr Chen said China had 496 ballistic missiles pointed at his island. 'Chen Shui-bian could be portrayed as a loud mouth and as being irresponsible,' said a Taiwan analyst who asked not to be identified. 'It gives the opposition camp ammunition to attack Chen,' said a Taiwan academic who also spoke on condition of anonymity. The Xinhua report, however, did not make clear the exact deeds of the arrested spies, except saying what they did 'may bring catastrophes and bitterness to the people of Taiwan'. It also said the spies had confessed to their crimes and that they are in good health. The spokesman said the case was being investigated further. Yesterday, Ming Pao also ran another report from Taiwan's ETtoday.com news website which quoted a Taiwanese in Beijing as saying that dozens of Taiwanese businessmen had been arrested in China in recent weeks on charges of spying. According to the businessman, named Li Ming, the number being detained across China could amount to 'several hundreds'. -- AFP, Reuters ==================== http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,227020,00.html? Reports factual, says HK daily HONG KONG - The editor of Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News has personally denied that his newspaper had a political axe to grind in running reports on a Taiwanese spy ring having been broken up in China recently. Refuting the Taiwanese government's accusations that the reports were concocted as part of Beijing's scheme to influence the island's upcoming presidential election, Mr Cheung Kin Po said his newspaper was merely doing its job. Ming Pao was living up to its role as a 'fact finder' in putting together a 'straightforward news story', he said in an interview with Taiwan's Internet news website ETtoday.com. But he did not produce any evidence on which the reports were based. ==================== http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2003/12/25/1072317652.htm Taiwan maintains stance on China spy claims 2003-12-25 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Tsai Ting-I Breaking two days of silence, China officially claimed yesterday that it had broken up a spy ring gathering secrets for Taiwan and arrested 43 individuals, including 24 Taiwanese citizens. But the Ministry of National Defense yesterday reiterated that all of its intelligence operations were proceeding normally, and Defense Minister Tang Yao-ming declared that his agency would no longer comment on similar reports in the future. China had remained silent in recent days as a Hong Kong newspaper reported that China had cracked a Taiwanese spy ring, but the state-run Xinhua News Agency yesterday morning quoted unnamed national security officials who said that 24 Taiwanese and 19 Chinese had been arrested for spying on Taiwan's behalf. "State security departments of the Chinese mainland have smashed a ring of intelligence agents," the report said. Xinhua said the group had "conducted activities in violation of the law." The suspects were captured and interrogated "strictly in accordance with the law," the report said, and all of them have been provided with daily necessities and medical services. All were in good health, it said. The report didn't identify those detained or provide any further details. But it said the suspected Taiwanese spies had all confessed to the illegal activities in which they were involved. Cabinet spokesman Lin Chia-lung, speaking for Minister Tang yesterday, said that none of the Taiwanese who apparently disappeared were MND personnel, leading authorities to conclude that if China arrested Taiwanese citizens, they were most likely businessmen and not spies. In addition, because of the dangers related to intelligence work, Tang said the MND would follow the international practice of not commenting on cases like this in the future. Family members of a disappeared Taiwanese businessman Soong Chiao-lian, who has run a real estate business in China's southern Hainan island, said they learned of the espionage charge against Soong from their Chinese friends, but were certain that he had never been involved in any intelligence work. The pro-China Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao first reported the case on Monday. The paper claimed that President Chen Shui-bian's November 30 speech detailing the number and location of missiles China has targeted at Taiwan exposed 36 of the island's spies operating across the Taiwan Strait. A day later, the paper published partial names of seven Taiwanese under arrest. In response to Xinhua's report yesterday, Vice President Annette Lu asserted that the report was an attempt to embarrass the president ahead of the upcoming presidential election. "Let's not believe in rumors," Lu said during a campaign appearance. "We all know that the Beijing authorities have all kinds of strategies for dealing with Taiwan and interfering with our elections." Shi Hwei-yow, secretary-general of the Strait Exchange Foundation, emphasized that there was no evidence to prove that any of the reportedly missing Taiwanese individuals were engaged in intelligence-related activities. He told a Legislative Yuan hearing that his agency had received 39 appeals over the past six months from local families to help search for their missing relatives in China. Of these, 17 had been found. Shi emphasized that these missing persons cases were unrelated to espionage or intelligence operations. Interpreting the reports from China as a political maneuver, Shi said that he expected similar episodes would follow, even though this would only increase the hostility felt across the Taiwan Strait. 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