From Bloomberg News:
China said it detained two Taiwan businessmen on espionage charges, three months after it confirmed it executed a high-ranking Chinese pension fund official for spying for the island.
“The mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits has informed the relatives of the persons concerned,” Li Weiyi(ÊùéÁª¥‰∏Ä), a spokesman for the Beijing-based China Taiwan Affairs Office(ÂõΩÂè∞ÂäûÔºâ, said in a regular briefing today. The businessmen are based in China’s southern province of Hunan, Li said. He didn’t name the men or say what type of business they are involved in.
China in August confirmed the execution of Tong Daning, the highest-ranking Chinese official to be punished for espionage since 1999, according to military analysts. Tong, who helped manage China’s $26 billion pension fund, was executed on April 21 after the Beijing Intermediate Court found him guilty of spying for Taiwan, Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council for Advanced Policy Studies, said Aug. 8. [Full Text]
Related article: “China spy drama aims to spook Chen” from CNN earlier, saying”Song and Wang were two of at least 24 alleged spies — portrayed as out-of-luck businessmen trying to supplement incomes by freelancing for Taiwan intelligence agencies — that Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) agents nabbed last month.”
(BBC’s photo of one taiwan spy suspect, Lin Chieh-shan was paraded before local media in 2004).
