Taiwan Dismisses China Report of Mass Spy Arrests as ‘Stunt’
- Hundreds of Taiwan spy cases swept up, state media says
- Airs ‘confession’ of Taiwan man accused of photographing PLA
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Taiwan accused China of staging a “malicious political stunt” after Chinese state media said security agents had uncovered hundreds of spy cases in a mass dragnet.
The “Thunder 2020” operation swept up Taiwanese spies and destroyed an espionage network deployed by Taipei, broadcaster China Central Television said Sunday in a current affairs show. The program featured a Taiwanese businessman CCTV named as Lee Meng-chu confessing on-air that he shot 16 videos and took dozens of photos of People’s Liberation Army exercises at a stadium last year in Shenzhen, at a time when anxiety about Chinese military intervention to quell unrest in neighboring Hong Kong was running high.