Communist China’s recent seizure of a Taiwanese fishing boat may have been a geopolitical tactic to put pressure on Taiwan’s government, according to the island’s intelligence chief.
Chinese coast guard vessels boarded and seized a Taiwan fishing ship that was in Chinese waters about 17.5 nautical miles off the Taiwan-controlled offshore islands of Kinmen on July 3. The fishing ship, along with its crew of two Taiwanese nationals and three Indonesian immigrant workers, was subsequently forced to a port in China.
