BEIJING — China sentenced a Taiwanese professor to four years in jail for espionage, officials said Wednesday, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei deteriorate further.
It comes a month after he made a televised “confession” on state media.
Shih Cheng-ping, who is also a former chief economist for Chinese conglomerate Huaxia Group, was found guilty by a Chinese court on Tuesday, Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said at a press briefing.
Shih — who disappeared after traveling to the mainland in August 2018 — was one of several Taiwanese residents who appeared on a television program by state broadcaster CCTV in October confessing to spying on the mainland.
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