Experts criticize espionage acquittals

The High Court’s acquittal of the New Party’s Wang Ping-chung (王炳忠) on spying charges showed that judges do not understand how severely Chinese espionage undermines Taiwan’s democracy, two legal experts said yesterday.
The High Court on Friday acquitted Wang; fellow New Party members Ho Han-ting (侯漢廷) and Lin Ming-cheng (林明正); Wang’s father, Wang Chin-pu (王進步); and Chinese student Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭) of espionage charges in a ruling that upheld a Taipei District Court acquittal in April last year.
They were indicted in June 2018 over alleged breaches of the National Security Act (國家安全法), after they were accused of receiving funding from entities

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