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Hundreds of Chinese Communist Party members working at Taiwan firms: report

蘋果日報 2020/12/18 19:21


Around 600 people who are believed to be members of mainland China’s Communist Party are working at a number of listed companies in Taiwan, according to an investigation carried out by Apple Daily Taiwan on a massive database leak.
The database contained the identities of close to two million members of the party. It was previously exfiltrated from a server of the party in Shanghai and shared by an international cross-party group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance of China, which comprised more than 150 legislators working for reform of the way democratic countries approached mainland China.
Apple Daily Taiwan cross-checked the names on the database and found hundreds of people who were employees of listed Taiwanese companies or those that were well known across the Taiwan Strait.
The largest number, of 255 party members, was uncovered at Delta Electronics. Another 98 were working in First Sino Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fubon Financial Holdings; 90 were hired by computer company Asus; and 92 could be found at the subsidiaries of the food manufacturer Want Want Group, a pro-China enterprise.
Other businesses thrown up in the search included semiconductor producer ASE Technologies Holdings, food conglomerate Uni-President Enterprise Corp., the Formosa Plastics Group, industrial computing equipment distributor Advantech Co. Ltd., and supplier and maker of pneumatic machinery AirTAC International Group.
Personal details, such as the name, gender, place of birth, educational background, affiliated party branch and party identification number could all be seen on the leaked database list.
In response to Apple Daily queries, Delta Electronics said that the company was focused on running its operations and would not take part in any political activities. It said that any establishment of a branch of the party was not related to the company.
A senior management member of AirTAC was surprised at the results and called it “a bit ridiculous” upon learning that 29 of its staffers were said to be members of the party. AirTAC said that at the point of hiring, it did not know whether particular candidates were party members or not.
The other companies declined to comment on Apple Daily’s findings.
A Tawianese businessman played down the results, saying that there were misconceptions about branches of the party. He told the newspaper that the establishment of a party branch did not mean political infiltration was involved.
Chinese authorities did not mandate the establishment of party branches at all enterprises, he said, while memberships were strictly limited and would screen out Taiwanese people.
Party members would hold meetings regularly, but merely to discuss government policies or study remarks made by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the businessman said. In fact, Taiwanese enterprises had also been making good use of party branches in their midst to improve the relationship with mainland authorities and better communicate with local governments to develop their businesses, he said.
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