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China executes official spying for Taiwan, makes video on case: reports
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 A Chinese official has been executed for spying on behalf of arch-rival Taiwan and a educational video has been made about the case to warn others, a government agency's website said Monday. Tong Daning, who was employed at an undisclosed government agency, was executed in April, while a Taiwanese agent was jailed for life, according to scattered information available on the Internet. "Tong Daning worked his way up from ordinary worker to director of the general office at his government agency," said a statement on the website of the Yellow River Bureau in central Henan province. "As he was promoted, he also became ever deeper involved in a Taiwanese spy ring, selling out national secrets, for which he eventually was sentenced to death," it said. All staff at the Yellow River Bureau from junior management upwards were required to watch a video on Tong's case, apparently shown widely in China to discourage officials from spying for Taiwan. The bureau is a provincial-level agency in charge of everything related to the river. An unnamed official wrote on a blog that he, too, had been ordered to watch the video. "After the case broke, he was sentenced to death at an intermediary court in Beijing and executed on April 21, while a person surnamed Li posing as a Taiwanese businessman got life in jail," said the official. "I won't write more, the rest is a secret!" China and Taiwan have been governed separately since the end of a civil war in 1949, and have been political rivals ever since. Despite ever-closer economic ties, the two sides are still believed to carry out intensive espionage against each other. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links China News from SinoDaily.com
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