The CCP’s secret letter praising Gao Jin Sumei: a fishbone stuck in the throat of Taiwan’s democracy

Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei was indicted in a Communist espionage case. Prosecutors discovered secret letters exchanged between Gao Jin’s “big accountant” Zhang Junjie and Wang Xiaobing, former deputy secretary-general of the China Association for Relations Across the Sea, and part of the text matched the contents of Gao Jin’s parliamentary inquiry. It is understood that Wang is the Chinese person with the highest level of contact with Zhang. He once proposed financial aid to other Taiwanese representatives and arranged for Gaojin to take a stake in the Shanghai Fire Company. Whether it was implemented remains to be investigated. The Chinese letter even described Gaojin as "a fishbone stuck in the throat of Taiwan's freedom and democracy."

Wang Xiaobing has been working in Taiwan for a long time and has contacts with people in the blue camp.

Wang Xiaobing has been engaged in anti-Taiwan work for a long time and has been in contact with Kuomintang figures for many years. After resigning from the ARATS in 2016, the "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Library Cultural and Educational Foundation" established by the Kuomintang proposed to hire him as a consultant, but his background in the Taiwan Affairs Office and the United Front caused controversy. The following year, he went to Shandong to lecture on the "One China" principle and the "1992 Consensus" to Taiwanese college students. In 2020, the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office prosecuted Chinese partner He Jianhua for involving the National Security Act. It is also recorded that He Jianhua met Wang and others through events in Beijing, and then developed organizations in Taiwan.

The national security unit learned that Zhang and Wang frequently communicated through confidential letters. Zhang regularly requested money, reported progress, and explained which people should be recruited to join the "Ancestral Land Team" in the name of serving the indigenous people. In addition, money was sent to Gaojin Zhuangjiao in the name of bonuses; Wang forwarded instructions through an intermediary.

The content of the secret letter is highly consistent with Gao Jin’s political discussion

The investigation compared confidential letters and hard drive files with Gao Jin’s political inquiries, public activities and Facebook posts. Files in November 2005 recorded that Zhang planned Gao Jin’s pre-departure press conference with indigenous people to go to the United Nations to protest Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine, and borrowed the Legislative Yuan conference room in Gao Jin’s name.

The investigation found that Gao Jin criticized "Japan as a country that is irresponsible to history" at the time, and his remarks were consistent with the secret letter. In the same month, he rebuked officials at the Foreign Affairs Committee, "You have betrayed the Taiwanese people and forgotten the pain of the Taiwanese people." This also appeared in the letters of Zhang and Wang. Some of the content of the inquiry regarding Gaofin's request to delete the budget was determined by the prosecutor to be from the inquiry draft written by Zhang.

The High People's Procuratorate filed an indictment last week and pointed out that Gao Jin Sumei, Zhang Junjie, office director Chen Zhiqian, assistant Lin Yijun and others have used the "Ling of the Ancestral Spirits Team" as a cover since 2005 to receive 170 million yuan in CCP funds to develop organizations in Taiwan. They cooperated in intervening in parliamentary affairs and boycotting arms purchases and budgets. Gao Jin and Zhang requested 14 and 15 years in prison respectively. Chen and Lin pleaded guilty and gave Gao Jin's knowledge. The prosecutor requested an appropriate sentence.

It is understood that during the recent interrogation by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Gaojin claimed that because of its trust in Zhang Junjie, most of its business operations and other matters were left to him, emphasizing his innocence.