Gu Lixiong, secretary-general of the National Security Council, recently warned that the CCP is expected to conduct larger-scale interference in the presidential and legislative elections to be held next year.

Cai Mingyan, director of the National Security Bureau, said that there are three main parts of the CCP’s mediation.

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[Reporter Wu Shuwei/Taipei Report] Gu Lixiong, Secretary-General of the National Security Council, recently warned that the CCP is expected to conduct larger-scale interference in the presidential and legislative elections to be held next year.

Cai Mingyan, director of the National Security Bureau, said that there are three main parts of the CCP’s election mediation. The first is external environment pressure through force or economic coercion, and the second is dissemination of false information during the election process through internal agents or agents, and through closed groups. Spreading false information, "it is easy to cause the internal stratosphere to continue to thicken", and the third is the involvement of money including underground gambling.

The Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan invited Cai Mingyan, director of the National Security Bureau, to lead the heads of relevant intelligence agencies to submit the "National Intelligence Work and National Security Bureau Business Report" and prepare questions.

DPP legislator Zhao Tianlin was concerned about Gu Lixiong's recent mention that the CCP will interfere in Taiwan's presidential election on a large scale next year.

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Cai Mingyan said that for the CCP’s election mediation, there are several main forms. The first part is to use force or economic coercion to cause pressure from the external environment; Among them, to spread all kinds of false information, the National Security Bureau is now focusing on the operation and use of new media and social media.

Cai Mingyan pointed out that some disinformation operations are now spread through closed groups,

This kind of closed group can easily lead to the continuous thickening of the internal stratosphere, resulting in a relatively antagonistic relationship between societies. The National Security Bureau is "very concerned" about the disinformation operation of closed groups.

Cai Mingyan mentioned that the third part is money. China intervenes in Taiwan’s elections through underground transfers, or related possible use of funds, and money intervenes in parts that may involve underground gambling. Therefore, for the CCP’s possible mediation samples State security units have organized special projects, and several meetings have been held to carry out special project division of labor, asking national security units to investigate possible Chinese election mediation.

Cai Mingyan mentioned that the most important purpose of China's cognitive warfare is to influence the cognition of the people of Taiwan, including confidence in democracy, as well as confidence in international cooperation and exchanges. Cognitive combat process, which is of great concern to the National Security Agency.

DPP legislator Qiu Zhiwei also paid attention to the issue of China’s election mediation during the questioning; Cai Mingyan said that the CCP’s election mediation activities in Taiwan have always been the focus of the National Security Bureau’s observations, especially next year’s two-in-one general election. The National Security Bureau predicts that the CCP will have a lot But in fact, since the beginning of this year, because the leader of the CCP, Xi Jinping, has appointed his cronies to take over the United Front Work Department and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, he has felt the CCP’s actions to promote financing and its infiltration into Taiwan has strengthened.

Regarding the difference between promoting integration and promoting reunification, Cai Mingyan pointed out that promoting integration mainly strengthens cross-strait integration, and the political purpose is to hope that both sides of the strait will promote reunification.