ABSTRACT

Mutual espionage between Taiwan and the PRC has persisted since the struggle between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party for control of the mainland in the 1930s and 1940s. Greater China remains a region where counterespionage and antiterrorism are the major concerns of the governments of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. In May 2004, the PRC sentenced a dissident to five years’ imprisonment for spying for Taiwan and entering mainland China illegally. In April 2006, the PRC executed Tong Daning, a mainland official in the National Development and Reform Commission, for working as a spy for Taiwan. The association’s chairman, Hsu Wen-pin, pointed to the nervousness of Taiwanese businesspeople while visiting the mainland, caused by unease after the PRC government’s action against Taiwan’s “spies.” The PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait informed the relatives of the two businessmen about the arrest.