A former senior US diplomat in Taiwan has warned that the island’s security relationship with Washington is being jeopardised by escalating Chinese espionage.
William Stanton, who retired last year as head of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy, said the “success and frequency” of spying cases served to “undermine US confidence in security co-operation with Taiwan”.
In recent years, at least nine Taiwanese people have been arrested for spying for mainland China. They include an army general and an air force captain accused of passing information about Taiwan’s air-defence systems to China.
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