TAIPEI, Taiwan—Beijing is seeking to influence Taiwan’s local elections later this year through newly announced incentives, Taiwan’s top intelligence official has said, a day after the island’s main opposition leader concluded her six-day trip to China.
Tsai Ming-yen, director-general of Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, made the comments at parliament on April 13 while answering reporters’ questions about China’s 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan announced on Sunday. Cheng Li-wen, the chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), had traveled to China at the invitation of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The 10 measures, announced by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Taiwan Work Office to facilitate cross-strait exchanges, include facilitating the export of Taiwan’s agricultural and fishery products to China, the full resumption of flights between the two sides, allowing individuals from Shanghai and China’s Fujian Province to visit Taiwan, and exploring the establishment of a regular communication mechanism between the CCP and the KMT, according to China’s state-run media outlet Xinhua….
China Seeks to Influence Taiwan Elections With Incentives, Taiwan Security Chief Says
