Free Lectures" Gao Jin Sumei accepts financial aid from the CCP. What kind of "friendly exchange" is considered?

◎ Chen Qinong

Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei was involved in receiving 170 million yuan of funds from the Chinese Communist Party to develop an organization. The Supreme People's Procuratorate indicted her on November 6 and asked for 14 years in prison. (File photo)

On November 6, legislator Gao Jin Sumei was indicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for violating the National Security Law and the Corruption Crime Ordinance. I heard that the host of Taichung Radio's working hours program felt aggrieved for her. She thought that the incident involving Gao Jin Sumei had already happened a long time ago when Ma Ying-jeou was president, and she promoted friendly exchanges with China. Why did it take so many years before the inspection and investigation system launched another investigation and determined it to be political persecution?

The statements made by these two radio hosts not only insist on political motives and confuse the facts, they are also an insult to the Taiwanese people, and they also show contempt and disregard for the inspection, investigation and implementation of national security protection work. Because the starting point was in 2009, but it has continued from that time to the present, it cannot be said to have just happened a long time ago, nor can it be naively said to be just "friendly cross-strait exchanges."

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If it was just to promote cross-strait exchanges, why did Zhang Junjie, Gao Jin Sumei's big accountant, want to smuggle out? If he had a clear conscience and had no wrongdoing, he should be able to face the investigation calmly. It can be seen that there is something behind this, and it is not just a simple exchange. As long as it accepts funds from the CCP or uses donations from Chinese companies, it is actually just a pretext for the United Front Department of the CCP.

Zhang Junjie, the "big accountant" of Gao Jin Sumei, was suspected of receiving Chinese funds to develop organizations in Taiwan for more than 10 years. He was suspected of absconding before his co-accused Chen Zhiqian and Lin Yijun were interviewed on charges related to the national security law. The picture shows Zhang’s escape route in the past two months. (Photography compiled by this newspaper)

Do our legislators accept funds from the CCP in the hope of promoting cross-strait peace? Of course, it is necessary to use the influence of legislators in Congress to draft bills that are more beneficial to the CCP's united front work, and even further establish organizations, send personnel to China for training, and come back to engage in united front methods such as debate, propaganda war, legal warfare, and social warfare. As a last resort, if infiltration, differentiation and disintegration are ineffective and the CCP launches a war against Taiwan, these members of the so-called fifth column will be responsible for creating unrest in Taiwan and become a coordinated combat force internally supporting the CCP.

The arrow is already on the string, and the CCP has already recruited important figures within Taiwan to carry out planned united front work. National security units and inspection and commission units should be more active in dealing with the situation. Regardless of the size of the matter, regardless of the person's power and position, they should not be in vain or indulge in it, and serve as a favorable and firm line of defense to protect national security. Such protection will affect Taiwan's freedom, peace and security, and will also protect the people's happy life.

(The author is a current affairs commentator)