This report, written by GTI Research Fellow Benjamin Sando, is the first public report to employ Sayari database software, which compiles corporate public records in a searchable format, to reveal Chinese Communist Party United Front Networks in Taiwan’s temples.
Among the revelations contained in the report are:
- Unlawful Influence Positions: A Taiwanese national suspected of violating Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Act by serving as a member of the Quanzhou CPPCC (中國人民政治協商會議).
- Lucrative Cross-Strait Religious Tours : An incentive scheme through which the vice-chairman of one of Taiwan’s most powerful temples—Jenn Lann Temple (鎮瀾宮)—earns profits by bringing Taiwanese Mazu believers to a Mazu Cultural Park he helped develop in Tianjin, China.
- Temple Donations by PRC-connected Taiwanese : An overseas Taiwanese businessperson —representing a firm carrying out contracts for the PRC government—distributing NTD 300,000 in cash to Taiwanese citizens at a Jenn Lann Temple event.
Download the report here.
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