Red China’s efforts to intimidate, spy on, influence, and otherwise debilitate and manipulate the people of Taiwan and their leaders and institutions has many components. One of them is a massive database tracking anybody and everybody on the island, as well as their political opinions (Taipei Times, March 18, 2026).
China has developed a network-mapping project targeting political figures and parties in Taiwan to monitor public opinion during elections and to craft tailored influence campaigns aimed at dividing Taiwanese society, according to documents leaked by Chinese technology firm GoLaxy.
The documents, collected by Taipei-based Doublethink Lab, showed a database was specifically created to gather detailed information on Taiwanese political figures, including their political affiliations, job histories, birthplaces, residences, education, religion and a brief biography about them….
Overall, the database contains 170 detailed files of Taiwanese politicians, about 23 million records of Taiwan household registration data from closed sources, as well as information about 75 Taiwanese political parties, 1,478 Taiwanese firms, 13,000 Taiwanese religious groups and nearly 24,000 Taiwanese civic organizations.
Meanwhile, the leaked papers showed a Taiwan Online Public Opinion Weekly Report, which was published at the end of 2023 before the 2024 presidential and legislative elections. The report said it had tracked 634,448 records of online content posted between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1, 2023, including original posts and responses to those posts.
The report also tracked and analyzed the competing narratives among the presidential candidates of the Democratic Progressive Party, the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Taiwan’s People Party, the papers showed….
GoLaxy said that the information of Taiwanese politicians was collected to support the narrative wars in Taiwan.
Documents about the database seem to be part of the same massive GoLaxy leak first reported in September 2025, at which time the main story was “a chilling new approach to information warfare: an army of AI personas, engineered to look like us, think like us, and win our trust. Not the blunt-force troll farms of Russia, but something intimate, surgical, and already operational.”
The new Taipei Times report mentions what sounds like the same persona project, one designed “to simulate the preferences, cognition and language styles of target audiences and create virtual characters speaking in Mandarin, Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) and English to interact with them in scripted dialogues.”
Lech Walesa
Also participating in the narrative wars, although perhaps by accident, is Lech Walesa, former Polish president and rebel against the Soviet Union. He suggested at a recent forum in Taipei that Taiwan can unify the Chinese. “Taiwan has proved to the whole world that it has great solutions when it comes to the economy and politic. Taiwanese solutions should be the model.”
Force is out, though. “Walesa said he deeply believes the world can find good solutions to big problems and solve them in a peaceful manner, and solutions that use force and coercion would always fail, just as the communist solution had failed.”
If Walesa proves unable to convince the Chinese Communist Party to let Taiwan take over, perhaps the Party will at least add his opinion to its database.
