2021/01/15 12:53 Xu (left), Luo (center), and Ma. (Facebook, Chinese Huangpu Four Seas Alliance Association photo) Xu (left), Luo (center), and Ma. (Facebook, Chinese Huangpu Four Seas Alliance Association photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A prominent attorney on Wednesday (Jan. 13) chastised the high court for reducing the sentence of a retired general who received illegal political donations from a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member to only two years. In December of last year, retired Taiwanese Army Lieutenant General Luo Wen-shan (羅文山) was sentenced to two and half years in prison by the Taipei District Court for illegally receiving donations from the Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) during former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou s (馬英九) 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Specifically, he was charged with receiving political donations from CPPCC member and Hong Kong businessman Hui
CCP proxy bills crucial: attorney
EXPOSING MANIPULATION: As Australia and the US have passed laws to restrict Chinese proxies, ‘Taiwan has no reason not to pass one too,’ Huang Di-ying said
By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
An attorney on Sunday spoke out in support of two bills aimed at limiting the influence of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proxies, as the Mainland Affairs Council said that the bills are still subject to public feedback.
Democratic Progressive Party and New Power Party lawmakers last year pushed for the passage of a draft “hostile foreign influence transparency act” and an amendment to the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) to target individuals or groups acting under the direction of “infiltration sources.”
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