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Court misreads spying operations

Chen Chi-nung 陳啟濃

When retired army colonel Hsin Peng-sheng (辛澎生) was found guilty of spying for China, the prosecution was dissatisfied with his six-month prison sentence and appealed the case.

However, he was found not guilty by a court of appeal, and he has been acquitted again in a retrial.

The judges’ reasoning was that there are no facts or evidence to prove that Hsin developed a spying organization on behalf of China.

Shaming Taiwan, but taking its cash

Chin Ching 秦靖

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Taiwanese speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) provoked a storm of criticism for what was seen as pro-China behavior.

First, she posted a video of herself wearing a Chinese national team skinsuit before the start of the Games, then she told Chinese media after a race that “it felt like I was competing at home.”

The public slammed the Sports Administration and the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) for their “weakness” in retaining Huang as the national flagbearer at the opening ceremony.

Taiwan slams Russia over incursion

Taipei Times

Ukrainians wave Ukrainian and EU flags, and hold banners as they protest outside the Russian embassy in Kyiv yesterday after Moscow’s decision to formally recognize two Russian-backed regions of eastern Ukraine as independent.
Photo: Reuters

Taiwan condemns Russia for undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and calls for peaceful means to resolve the dispute, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday.

Taipei “condemns Russia’s violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” Tsai wrote on Facebook shortly after she was briefed on the latest situation in Ukraine by a National Security Council task force.

Ukraine a harbinger for Taiwan

Taipei Times Editorial

For several weeks, US and UK intelligence agencies have been warning that the Kremlin might be planning a “false flag” operation against Ukraine which would give the more than 100,000 Russian troops massed on the Ukraine border casus belli to invade the country on the grounds of protecting ethnic Russians.

As sure as eggs are eggs, last week a Ukrainian nursery school in the breakaway Donbas region was hit by artillery fire. The leader of the Donbas separatist government immediately said that Ukrainian forces had shelled the nursery, while Kyiv blamed Russian forces for the attack and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested he had seen intelligence showing the Kremlin had engineered the attack.

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