08-09-2006, 05:25 PM
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China executes official for spying
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Government workers forced to watch video on case
BEIJING, China (AP) -- An official from China's social security fund has been executed on charges of spying for rival Taiwan, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday, and government employees have been required to watch a video about the case.
Tong Daning, director of the general office of the National Social Security Fund, was executed on April 21, said Yan Caiping, the agency's chief press officer. Yan said Tong was convicted of spying for Taiwan but wouldn't give any other details.
China and Taiwan, which split in 1949 amid civil war, are believed to spy actively on each other.
Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory. The communist mainland government has threatened repeatedly to attack and has been trying to isolate the island internationally, giving Taipei a strong interest in the mainland's military and diplomatic policy.
A spokesman for Taiwan's Ministry of Defense, Wang Rui-lung, said he couldn't comment on whether Tong spied for Taipei.
In 1999, a Chinese general and colonel reportedly were executed for selling military secrets to Taiwan. The officers sold information about 1996 missile tests carried out by Beijing near Taiwan in an attempt to intimidate voters during the island's first direct presidential election, according to Taiwanese reports.
In the latest case, employees of Chinese universities, radio and television stations and other agencies have been required to watch a video titled "Tong Daning's Spying Case" in recent weeks.
The video is meant to "strengthen employees' concept of protecting secrets," said the Web site of a river management agency in the central province of Henan.
Similar accounts appeared on Web sites of more than a dozen other agencies, including weather bureaus and a family planning office. Some showed employees watching the video and taking notes but none gave any details of its contents.
The mainland government has steadily expanded its arsenal of missiles, submarines and other long-range weapons in an effort to extend the reach of its military and back up threats to attack Taiwan.
Beijing also has waged a successful campaign to isolate Taiwan on the world stage, pressing its diplomatic partners not to treat the island as a sovereign nation and to bar its democratically elected government from the United Nations and other world bodies.
Last month, Taiwanese news reports said two officers of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau were captured by Chinese agents in Vietnam in May after they went there to meet a double agent.
The two sides have no official ties, but commercial relations are thriving, and Taiwanese companies have invested some $100 billion in factories and other assets on the mainland.
In 2004, China displayed before reporters a group of Taiwanese businessmen who it said were caught spying for Taipei.
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