One down. The Republic of China is dissolving the Cross-Strait Marriage and Family Service Alliance, a group accused of spying on Chinese immigrants to Taiwan on behalf of Beijing. A leader of the organization, Xu Chunying (shown above), was indicted last month for violating the Anti-Infiltration Act (Taipei Times, May 4, 2026).
The alliance “illegally monitored” Chinese immigrants living in Taiwan on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Ministry of the Interior is expected to dissolve the organization in the coming days….
According to the indictment, Xu allegedly acted under instructions from Yang Wentao, director of the Cross-Strait Marriage and Family Service Center under the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Sun Xian, an official in the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang—one of the eight “democratic parties” operated under the CCP.
Prosecutors allege that Xu used her roles to regularly report to the CCP on Taiwan’s domestic political developments, election conditions and public opinion, as well as daily remarks, activities and political participation of Chinese living in Taiwan.
Xu was included on the Taiwan People’s Party’s legislator-at-large list in 2023, but was ultimately withdrawn due to her strong ties to China and controversial statements and actions.
Xu and the Alliance are the tip of an iceberg.
Levels of infiltration
A few weeks ago, the director of the ROC’s National Security Bureau, Tsai Ming-yen, observed that the CCP “integrates national security, intelligence operations and ‘united front’ efforts into a dense network to conduct intelligence gathering and espionage in Taiwan…. It uses specific networks to screen targets through exchange activities and recruiting local collaborators to establish intelligence-gathering organizations, he said.”
A recent Taiwan News article describes three levels of systematic infiltration of the Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party:
● “Surface level,” consisting of things like cyber operations and disinformation. “According to Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, Chinese cyberattacks averaged 2.63 million intrusion attempts per day in 2025. These operations target government systems, critical infrastructure, and information networks to disrupt operations and gather intelligence.” The report doesn’t say how many, if any, of the reported two or three million cyberattacks per day manage to compromise systems or extract sensitive information.
● “Intermediate level,” consisting of “people-to-people networks, business ties, and media channels to exert influence…. Groups such as the Concentric Patriotism Alliance [and] the Chinese Unification Promotion Party—whose members have been jailed for recruiting active and retired military personnel—show how civilian networks can serve as intelligence platforms. Business figures acting on behalf of Chinese intelligence agencies often link this layer to deeper operations.”
● “Deepest level,” consisting of “human intelligence [embedded] within the military, critical infrastructure, and political institutions…. According to former Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng, one in three individuals caught passing classified information to China did so while still in active service, pointing to vulnerabilities within Taiwan’s defense system. These risks extend to political leadership, with cases indicating infiltration reaching as far as the presidential office.”
Another report notes that of “95 active-duty and retired [ROC] military personnel indicted” for spying for the People’s Republic of China since 2020 (out of 159 in all thus indicted since 2020), “46 were commissioned officers, 27 were non-commissioned officers and 22 were soldiers, showing that the CCP has infiltrated all levels of the military.”
ROC Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo: “Spies for the CCP are indeed everywhere, and they will exhaust all options to get intelligence.”
Also see:
Global Taiwan Institute: “Chinese Communist Party Covert Operations Against Taiwan”
ROC Ministry of Justice: Anti-Infiltration Act (of 2020)
“This Act is enacted to prevent the infiltration and intervention of foreign hostile forces, to ensure national security and social stability, and to safeguard the sovereignty and liberal democratic constitutional order of the Republic of China….
“[The term ‘foreign hostile forces’] refers to countries, political entities or groups that are at war with or are engaged in a military standoff with the Republic of China.”
Wikipedia: “Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang”
“One of the eight minor non-oppositional political parties in the People’s Republic of China, officially termed ‘democratic parties,’ under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Gov.cn: China Yearbook 2004: “The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang”
“Since New China was founded in 1949, the RCCK has played an important role in carrying on the socialist revolution and construction, in strengthening ties with Kuomintang personnel and their families in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and foreign countries, in uniting patriots for achieving the peaceful reunification of the motherland.”
