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China said on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that it volition instrumentality countermeasures successful effect to a caller Taiwan authorities website for Chinese nationals to study quality tips, saying the tract exposed Taipei's "confrontational mindset".
Taiwan and China, which views the democratically governed land arsenic its ain territory, person agelong spied connected each other, and Taiwan successful peculiar has reported an accrued fig of Chinese espionage cases.
Taiwan's National Security Bureau unveiled the caller website connected Sunday (June 14), explaining it was offering a unafraid transmission to what it said was an expanding fig of radical who are fed up with China's strategy and privation change.
Speaking astatine a regular quality league successful Beijing, Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Taiwan was engaging successful "intelligence theft, infiltration, and sabotage activities, escalating cross-strait confrontation and undermining cross-strait relations.
"This fully exposes their pro-Taiwan independency stance, their stubbornness, confrontational mindset, and refusal to alteration course," helium said.
"We powerfully condemn this and volition resolutely instrumentality countermeasures," Mr. Chen added, without giving details.
Chinese citizens, organisations, companies and different groups each person a work and work to safeguard security, helium said.
"For those who supply quality to Taiwan's quality agencies successful a mode that constitutes a crime, the applicable departments volition prosecute ineligible work successful accordance with the law."
Taiwan said its caller intelligence-gathering programme was pursuing the pb of agencies successful countries specified arsenic the U.S., Britain and Israel.
The website is blocked successful China, though galore Chinese usage VPNs to entree different blocked sites such arsenic Western societal media and hunt engines.
China has tried similar tactics itself. In 2024, China announced an email code wherever radical could study tip-offs astir crimes committed by Taiwan "separatists".
Taiwan's authorities rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims, saying lone the island's radical tin determine their future.
