The eldest son of a Chinese female spy and prisoner Lai Qingde was arrested in the United States. The DPP severely condemned the CCP’s transnational suppression.

A Chinese female spy secretly filmed Lai Ching-te's eldest son in a US prison and was arrested by the FBI. (Picture taken from X platform, @USAttyEssayli)

In response to China’s dispatch of personnel to monitor relatives of President Lai Ching-te in the United States, the China Affairs Department of the Democratic Progressive Party today severely condemned the CCP’s extension of transnational suppression to the relatives and people of our country’s head of state and called for an immediate end to threats and pressure on the people of Taiwan.

The China Department of the Democratic Progressive Party pointed out that the people involved in the case were instructed by Chinese officials to follow relatives of President Lai Ching-te in the United States and to send back images, license plates and other information, showing that the case was not an individual act, but an organized and directed transnational intelligence search, which seriously violated personal safety and the legal order of a democratic country.

The China Department of the Democratic Progressive Party believes that from dissidents, arts and cultural workers, to relatives of our country’s head of state, the targets of the CCP’s pressure continue to expand, and through overseas collaborators, it extends intimidation and intelligence to free societies, exposing its nature of exporting authority and creating fear.

The China Department of the Democratic Progressive Party is telling the Beijing authorities that if they sincerely advocate cross-strait exchanges, they should immediately stop transnational suppression and threats to the Taiwanese people, instead of shouting for exchanges while using state power to pressure the Taiwanese people and their families.