Taiwan’s President reports China a “foreign enemy power” and increases security measures, citing “infiltration” | Taiwan

Taiwan’s new president has officially referred to China as “foreign enemy power” and increased national security measures in the face of growing threats and a number of espionage cases.

The new measures announced on Thursday include a controversial proposal to restore a military court system in Taiwan, which was under war law by the end of the 1980s.

President Lai Ching-Te made the announcement after convening a high-ranking national security meeting. It triggered an almost immediate reaction from Beijing, which Lai called a “destroyer of the peace of the cross carriers” and “creator of the crisis”, which urged Taiwan into the “dangerous edge of war”.

Lai said reporters that he reacted to China’s increasing gray area attacks and the infiltration of the government, military and society. He said China made the definition of a “foreign enemy force” according to Taiwan’s anti-infiltration law and “he had no choice but to take more proactive measures”.

“China has used the freedom, diversity and openness of the democratic Taiwan for recruiting gangs, media, commentators, political parties and even active members of the armed for armed forces and the police to share, destroy and undermine us from the inside,” said Lai.

The concrete measure was the plans to restore a peace -peace -free military court system in order to “pursue military crimes as a stir, support the enemy, confidential information, breach of duty or disobedience”.

Taiwan was ruled for decades after brutal war law and completed the military court in 2014 after the proposal in the treatment of an investigation of death in connection with the death of a young recruit.

Opposition parties – which hold the majority in Taiwan’s legislature and were very obstructive’s agenda, have questioned the plan. The opposition KMT legislator Wang Hung-Wei said that her party was not “completely against it”, but accused the prevailing DPP of tracing its long-term positions. Another opposition party, the TPP, said the proposal would send Taiwan backwards for human rights.

In his speech, Lai characterized permanent restrictions by Chinese travelers and new residents as well as the monitoring of the Taiwanese people who work or travel in China.

Taiwan has followed dozens of current and former military personnel who were hired as spies for Beijing, and Taiwanese entertainer and influencer for confirming Beijing’s claims about Taiwan and widespread propaganda, said Lai.

This week, a resident born in China was shown for the publication of online content in which a Chinese invasion was supported. China also offers an unknown number of Taiwanese Chinese residence or passes, which Lai is “attempt to confuse the feeling of the national identity of the Taiwanese people”.

China’s government this week completed her annual political session of the two sessions, in which the officials emphasized their continued goal, annexed Taiwan and punish the leaders as “separatists”. Officials from the two meetings confirmed a preference for peaceful “reunification”, but the language hardened to use military violence if necessary.

Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwanese assistance office in China, said on Wednesday: “If the separatist armed forces of ‘Taiwan’ independence ‘, exert pressure or dare to cross the red line, determined measures are taken in response.”

On Friday morning, the Department of Defense said of Taiwan, 12 fighter planes, seven naval ships and an “official” ship (probably coast guard) had been discovered around Taiwan since 6 a.m. It was said that nine of the jets crossed the middle line of the Taiwan road.

Additional research by Jason Tzu Kuan LU