Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, revealed last year that he was being followed and that a pinhole camera was installed on his motorcycle outside his home for long-term surveillance. The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office today (7th) confirmed that the entire case was commissioned by two Hong Kong nationals across the sea for approximately NT$360,000. They prosecuted Daai Credit Information Agency Chairman Xie Yichen and other four people for violating the Personal Data Protection Act and issued a wanted notice for the Hong Kong client involved in the case who fled the country. In response, Wu Xindai, Taiwan's radical candidate for Taipei City Council, criticized the industry for collaborating with foreign hostile forces to harm Taiwanese people for personal gain, and pointed out that such cross-border surveillance activities are a collective coercion against the Taiwanese people.
Wu Xindai posted on Facebook today that four Taiwanese credit reporting companies who were supervised by Shen Boyang were formally prosecuted by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office today. The prosecutors also found that the clients and funds came from abroad: two Hong Kong people remitted 360,000 yuan to ask them to follow Shen Boyang and his wife and daughter. The two clients have now fled the country and are wanted. The business owner couldn't follow Shen Boyang, so he hid the miniature camera under the motorcycle seat cushion, pointed the camera at the door of his house, and filmed their family entering and exiting 24 hours a day from October 1 to November 8, 2024, and then used Telegram to transmit the footage to the client in Hong Kong.
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Wu Xindai said bluntly, "Everyone has someone they love and want to protect. Someone hides in front of the house and takes pictures of my relatives and children to intimidate me. Who can not be angry?" Prosecutors pointed out that during the period of surveillance, Shen Boyang was listed as a "Taiwan independence die-hard" by the Chinese Communist Party and was wanted for arrest and held accountable for life. These images were transmitted to hostile forces outside the country and used to oppress him. The prosecutor also accused the leader of the industry of knowing clearly that China was suppressing Taiwanese people and taking the case for personal gain, which was tantamount to "cooperating with foreign hostile forces to infringe on Taiwanese people." Moreover, during multiple interrogations, he avoided the most serious and showed no sincere remorse. He requested a fixed-term prison sentence of one year and six months.
Wu Xindai pointed out that this is not a single incident. It was reported a while ago that President Lai Ching-te's eldest son was followed and secretly photographed by Chinese spies in the United States, and was eventually arrested by the FBI. When Vice President Xiao Meiqin visited the Czech Republic, Chinese military attachés in the Czech Republic followed her motorcade, drove through a red light and almost caused a car accident. The Czech military intelligence unit later confirmed that Chinese intelligence officers tried to make demonstrative moves against her.
Wu Xindai continued to point out that those who work hard for Taiwan's subjectivity, whether they are Lai Qingde's family, Xiao Meiqin or Shen Boyang, have been shamelessly transnationally suppressed by China, intruding from the United States and Europe all the way to the homes of Taiwanese people. China does not care whose land it is and whether there are laws. These three people have very clear symbolic meanings: Lai Ching-te is the president who insists on Taiwan's subjectivity, Hsiao Meiqin represents Taiwan into the international community, and Shen Boyang has been teaching Taiwanese people to understand China's infiltration and cognitive operations for many years, and also supports Taiwan's independence.
Wu Xindai emphasized that these people symbolize that Taiwan and China are essentially two different countries. Taiwan can determine its own future, go global, and have the military to defend itself. By choosing these people, China wants to tell the whole of Taiwan that as long as the people you choose make China unhappy, they must bear these risks. Therefore, the targets of China's transnational suppression are never limited to the few people it targets. What it wants is collective coercion of all Taiwanese people, making everyone worry about whether their speech will also be targeted. This is how the chilling effect comes about.
Wu Xindai said that China has always used both soft and hard tactics. As it becomes more rampant, everyone must pay attention to who is still helping tell good stories about China in Taiwan and who is joining forces with China to bully Taiwanese people. "I am a Taiwanese independence activist. I condemn China's shameless tactics and I will not be afraid. Taiwan is the home where we grew up in peace. When the enemy invades our home, we should unite and keep the enemy out."
