Three days before Taiwan’s presidential election, Australian media reported that defected Chinese spy Wang Liqiang was contacted by a Chinese businessman and a senior member of Taiwans’ Kuomingtang (KMT) party who coerced him into retracting his previous confession about working as a spy for China, and swap it for a new version that would implicate Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of corruption. The directives aimed at swaying the outcome of the presidential election.
The Chinese businessman, named Sun Tianqun, contacted Wang on Chinese social media and said he acted on behalf of Alex Tsai, a former legislator and a current deputy secretary of Taiwan’s pro-Beijing Kuomingtang (KMT) party. Wang was offered rewards if he complied with their directives, according to a Jan. 8 report from Australian media The Age.
