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

We do whatever we can to deter China: Australian Defence Minister

 Amid rising tensions with China, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton has indicated that his country may send weapons to Taiwan in response to any future Chinese military aggression.

Amid rising tensions with China, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton has indicated that his country may send weapons to Taiwan in response to any future Chinese military aggression. Dutton’s remarks drew a direct comparison to support currently being sent to Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. “I think we do whatever we can to deter China from acts of aggression in our region,” said Dutton in response to a question on Taiwan. “Let’s be very clear. We want peace to prevail in our region, but you don’t have that peace if you are arguing from a position of weakness,” Dutton said.

Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, despite the fact that the two sides have been governed separately for more than seven decades. Taipei, on the other hand, has countered the Chinese aggression by increasing strategic ties with democracies including the US, which has been repeatedly opposed by Beijing. China has threatened that “Taiwan’s independence” means war….Read More