The former NTU associate professor Shi Zhengping, who was accused of espionage by the Chinese government, was sentenced by the Anhui Province Maanshan Intermediate Court to four years in prison and the confiscation of RMB 20,000 yuan in the first instance, said Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of China, at a press conference today. In addition, Shi Zhengping was also stripped of his political rights for two years.
Shi Zhengping disappeared in China in August 2018, and in October this year, CCTV’s “Focus Interview” aired a series of reports on the Taiwan spy case, in which Shi Zhengping was “televised to confess his guilt.
It was previously rumored that China would develop a list of “Taiwan independence stubborn elements. In the past, it has been rumored that China will draw up a list of “Taiwan independence stubborn elements.” Zhu Fenglian replied with a standard official answer: “The blatant provocation of state sovereignty and territorial integrity by a handful of Taiwan independence stubborn elements cannot be tolerated.
The Chinese government “will continue to take precise measures to severely punish Taiwan independence stubborn elements and their major supporters, such as their financiers, in accordance with the law,” and added that the targets of punishment include “the leading elements and their major supporters, such as their financiers, who organize, plan and carry out separatist activities on and off the island.
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