Spying on the President's Son: The China-Taiwan Intelligence War

A narrow 2026 arrest in California allegedly involving surveillance of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's son opens onto a much longer contest: China's intelligence and influence operations against Taiwan's leadership, the origins of cross-strait espionage, waves of infiltration and defection cases, US counterintelligence prosecutions, and Taiwan's efforts to harden presidential security. The timeline would trace how family members and overseas Taiwanese communities became targets of transnational pressure. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.