Taiwan seeks to pass bills to protect ‘core’ tech from Chinese espionage

 The amendments would increase prison time and fines for people who work with foreign entities to steal information about ‘core’ technologies, reported Taipei Times

In order to prohibit Chinese espionage to steal information about Taiwan’s ‘core’ technologies, its legislators are seeking to pass bills for harsher punishments. The amendments would increase prison time and fines for people who work with foreign entities to steal information about ‘core’ technologies, reported Taipei Times.

Legislators aim to pass three readings of draft amendments to the National Security Act and the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area this month, sources said. A proposed bill to amend the National Security Act, which passed a preliminary review on April 7, would prohibit people from helping China, Hong Kong, Macau, foreign countries or overseas hostile forces, or companies, organizations or people controlled by them, to infringe on the business secrets of the nation’s “core” technologies…Read More