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China says Taiwan spy worked in US
NETWORK CLAIM: Reports in the state media said that a Chinese-born American ma
n might have had a huge spy ring in the eastern US on a Taipei agency's payrol
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AGENCIES , BEIJING
Tuesday, Aug 17, 2004,Page 1
China claimed yesterday that a Chinese-born American who is charged with spyin
g on Beijing's diplomats for Taiwan operated a "huge network" of spies in the
US.
David Dong (董維), 52, also known as Dong Wei, is accused of working with two
other Chinese with US ties who were arrested in 2001 on charges of spying for
Taiwan, said the Global Times, a tabloid published by the main Communist Party
newspaper People's Daily.
Dong might have had "a huge network of Taiwanese spying in the eastern United
States," the government newspaper China Daily said, citing unidentified offici
al sources.
"Witnesses have revealed that a couple of people on Taiwan's intelligence agen
cy's payroll,including Dong, passed a large amount of intelligence to Taiwan,"
a source was quoted as saying.
Dong was among a series of Chinese-born businesspeople and academics with US t
ies who have been arrested by China in recent years on charges of obtaining mi
litary, economic and diplomatic secrets.
The revelations of such suspicions by China could be a move by Beijing to try
to drive a wedge between Taiwan and the US, analysts said.
In the most recent case, a Chinese-born American who teaches at the Georgia In
stitute of Technology, Wang Fei-ling, was held for two weeks on spying charges
before being allowed to return to the US late last month.
Wang's university denied that he was involved in spying, and the US complained
that Chinese authorities mistreated Wang by depriving him of sleep and water.
A spokesman for the US Embassy has said consular officials had been in contact
with Dong and last met him in June.
Dong, a US citizen since 1995, was arrested last September and is expected to
stand trial soon, according to earlier news reports.
He is accused of working with Qin Guangguang (覃光廣) and Wu Jianmin (吳建民),
who were arrested in China in 2001 on spying charges, said the Global Times,
which first reported Dong's arrest last month.
Qin, a Chinese citizen with US residency, was convicted of espionage and sente
nced to 10 years, while China claimed that Wu, a Chinese-born US citizen, conf
essed to spying, though it didn't release details of either case.
Both men were expelled to the US shortly before a 2001 visit to Beijing by US
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Dong is accused of obtaining information on Chinese policy toward Taipei and W
ashington and speeches by Chinese leaders to confidential meetings, according
to state media.
He would be transferred for public prosecution "in all likelihood very soon",
the China Daily said.
The newspaper quoted Dong's lawyer, Chen Manping, as saying that because it in
volves state secrets, the case might be heard in a closed courtroom.
Under Chinese law, a spying conviction can carry a maximum sentence of life in
prison.
Chinese state media say Dong received US$3,000 per month and a US$268,000 hous
e from Taiwan's National Security Agency.
Dong was born in Chongqing in 1952, worked as a reporter for state media and i
n 1986 went to the US as a student, according to earlier Chinese news reports.
The China Daily claimed that Dong also helped Taiwan recruit Chinese students
in the US as spies, drawing on a US$1 million fund set up by the Taiwanese gov
ernment.
Last December, China announced it had detained 24 Taiwanese and 19 mainlanders
for espionage, and that all of them had confessed. A Taiwanese man, Song Xiao
-lian (宋孝濂), was sentenced July 15 to four years in prison on spying charge
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