The High People's Procuratorate today (6th) prosecuted four people, including non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and absconding office director Zhang Junjie, for crimes such as violating the National Security Law to develop organizations and corruption regulations. Shen Mingshi, a researcher at the Institute of National Security of the National Defense Academy, pointed out in an interview that Zhang Junjie had gone to Macau to participate in a United Front training course and was a key figure in the CCP's development organization in Taiwan. Once arrested, the entire CCP infiltration network in Taiwan may be uncovered. Therefore, the CCP would not hesitate to use various methods to let him escape; there were even Chinese crew members in this case. "A person who is simply involved in ordinary crimes cannot be like this."
The indictment pointed out that between 2005 and 2016, Gao Jin Sumei and others integrated the tribal working team and the congressional team into the "Ancestral Spirit State Team", operating with "one set of people and two signs", bringing in more than 170 million yuan in CCP funds, and arranged for personnel to go to China to receive training on the island's united front work and then infiltrate the hometown, trying to use it as a "fifth column." The prosecutors asked Gao Jin to be sentenced to 14 years in prison, and Zhang Junjie to be sentenced to 15 years.
Shen Mingshi said that there is no term "fifth column" in the CCP system. This term is inherited from the Spanish Civil War. The CCP usually uses "white areas" and "underground parties", which are now generally referred to as "local collaborators" in Taiwan. The CCP coordinates and liaises with external people, intelligence units and even the United Front Department to conduct intelligence collection, infiltration, wooing and united front. Under certain circumstances, it may launch sabotage or attack operations. He believes that the "fifth column" used in the indictment is not an adjective, but is based on their behavior, which means that the degree of their exchanges with China has gone far beyond the united front of cultural exchanges.
He analyzed that if it was just Taiwanese gangsters who assisted in smuggling from beginning to end, it would not be so strong that it could be called a fifth column. However, Zhang Junjie was able to run from north to south, create confusion about smuggling from Chiayi, and finally go to sea from Keelung. Many different people and units were involved in transportation and cover. He cannot be simply regarded as a "counting room" that holds evidence of financial flows.
Regarding the training in China, Shen Mingshi said that the training process was conducted by Zhang Junjie and some aborigines were sent there. The content was related to the United Front and was unlikely to be training for intelligence agents. These people are peripheral elements and "cover the illegal with legality." However, the training process may teach some special skills, such as how to identify confidential documents, how to steal documents, and what to do when encountering others. Afterwards, the party organization will issue orders to gradually deepen intelligence infiltration or attacks.
As for why the hometown has become a target, Shen Mingshi pointed out that infiltration starts from the United Front, and the aboriginal elections are separated separately. In addition, the economic situation is relatively difficult, the difficulty of the United Front is relatively easy, and then through personnel intermediaries, the network becomes larger and larger. The path is first in the name of cultural exchange, then assigning tasks and requesting the provision of information, and then developing organizations that are ostensibly cultural exchanges, intermediary Taiwanese youth and aboriginals to go to China, and finally transform into an actual fifth column, such as the case of the "Rehabilitation Alliance Party" established by retired soldiers.
Talking about how to fix the loopholes, Shen Mingshi said that legislator Shen Boyang once proposed that legislators go to China to report, but the relevant legislative amendments have been blocked more than a thousand times and have never been passed. "This is the most regrettable." The second is the loyalty assessment and secret qualification certification of Congress. The version proposed by the Ministry of National Defense may be applicable to national defense business, but the secrets of the Legislative Yuan are not limited to national defense. He emphasized that the amendments to the law and countermeasures must have a deterrent effect. If the criminals finally think that they will only get a light sentence of one or two years, and the benefits they receive privately are very large in comparison, and they don't care at all, "then it's over."
