China's CCTV has aired reports containing confessions of alleged Taiwan spies for three consecutive days. In the latest report, two scholars, Tsai Chin-shu and Tony Shih, confessed to using academic exchanges to gather intelligence on China. Meanwhile, the Mainland Affairs Council criticized China for its subversive intelligence activities and not holding public trials in the name of national security.


China's CCTV has been airing a series of reports about Taiwan spies. On Oct. 13, the report focused on scholar Tsai Chin-shu, who disappeared after departing for Quanzhou, Fujian in July 2018. The report said Tsai was sentenced to four years in prison in July 2020 for jeopardizing national security and is currently imprisoned.

I had been in China for 20 or so years and followed my predecessors in engaging in cross-strait exchanges. However, I was used by the Military Intelligence Bureau to commit acts that endangered the national security of China. I wish I had known better and it's something I really regret.

The report also featured retired National Taiwan Normal University professor Tony Shih. He disappeared in China in 2018, and has been accused of using cross-strait forums to repeatedly travel to China to gather intelligence.

I made a mistake, so I hope I can share my experience with those people in Taiwan who may presently be on the verge of violating laws to serve as a warning and example and prevent them from making similar mistakes.

CCTV has so far aired the confessions of four Taiwan spies. A Tamkang University associate professor who has known Tsai for many years said in an interview that Cheng Yu-chin, one of the four accused, is actually an academic broker.

He was able to go to China and recruit English-speaking students to go there (Czech Republic) to study at Charles University. He was working as an academic broker. He found students and received a commission of about 600 euros per person.

The family members of those who disappeared in China and reappeared as alleged spies are worried. The Taiwan Affairs Office say relevant investigative authorities have notified the defendants' family members.

Investigative authorities have already notified family members in accordance with regulations about where the implicated persons are detained and other details and hired lawyers for them. In accordance with the criminal procedure law, cases involving state secrets are not tried in public.
With regards to the Chinese Communist Party disclosing Taiwanese persons engaged in cross-strait exchanges as so-called spies, they are overreaching and it is sheer fiction. They are making imaginary charges and repeatedly and maliciously hyping politics to deliberately destroy the cross-strait relationship.

The Mainland Affairs Council criticized China for its subversive intelligence activities and not holding public trials in the name of national security. It accused China of expanding its spying operations and destroying the normal growth of the cross-strait relationship.



中國官媒央視播出台灣間諜系列報導，第三天出現的，是2018年7月前往福建泉州後，失聯的台灣學者蔡金樹，央視指稱，他今年7月，被依危害國家安全罪，判刑4年，正在服刑。

央視節目遭控台諜學者 蔡金樹：「因為我在大陸20幾年了，一來追隨前輩，從事兩岸交流活動。但是卻被軍情局利用，作為危害大陸國家安全的一個行為，這個是我始料未及，也是我很後悔的地方。」

不同於前兩天，這一次，不只蔡金樹，還有台灣師範大學退休教授施正屏，也是2018年在中國失聯，被指控多次到中國，利用參加兩岸研討會議，從事情報蒐集工作。

央視節目遭控台諜學者 施正屏：「是我做錯了，希望我的經驗，能夠分享給這一個，台灣目前可能還在觸法的這些人士，作為一個警惕、借鑑，不要再繼續犯類似的錯誤。」

從屏東縣枋寮鄉顧問李孟居、學者鄭宇欽，再加上蔡金樹、施正屏，目前已經有四名台灣人，在電視上認罪，但認識鄭宇欽多年的淡江大學副教王崑義授，接受廣播訪問時表示，其實鄭宇欽是學術掮客。

淡江大學國際事務與戰略研究所副教授 王崑義表示：「他有能力去中國，招一些會懂、講英文的學生，到這邊（捷克）來學習，到查理大學來學習。說實話，就是學術掮客，我幫你找一些學生來，他拿一點傭金，傭金大概(每人)600歐嘛！」

台灣人在中國失聯，再出現就是被指控為間諜，最焦急的莫過於他們的家屬，國台辦指出，偵察機關已經通知了。

中國國台辦發言人 朱鳳蓮表示：「偵察機關已經按規定，將涉案人員，關押地點等情況，通知了家屬，並且為涉案人員聘請律師。按照刑事訴訟法的規定，涉及國家秘密的案件，不公開審理。」

陸委會發言人 邱垂正表示：「對於中共接二連三，對台灣從事兩岸交流人士，以所謂破獲間諜名義，濫抓，並編造子虛烏有、羅織入罪的劇情，一再惡意政治炒作，刻意破壞兩岸關係。」

中國指證歷歷，認為是依法打擊民進黨政府，針對中國的情報滲透破壞活動，但卻以國安為由，不公開審判，陸委會反駁抨擊，中國無限擴張間諜行為，嚴重破壞兩岸關係正常發展。