<KANWA news March 11th > The case of Li Wen He has produced a big repercussion in the USA. Li Wen He , a scientist who was born in Taiwan and is now residing in the USA, is suspected of revealing the technical secret of the US W88 warhead to China.In response to this incident, a Chinese scholar of political science indicated to the KWIC reporter that the case of Li Wen He was actually an important plot that had been hatched by the Republican Party in order to put the Democratic Party to rout at the US presidential election. 'Monica and Li Wen He ', one is targeted at Bill Clinton and the other at Al Gore who intends to run for the presidency. On the other hand, Mei Fu Xing, a Taiwanese military commentator, told the KWIC reporter that it was not a rare case that China used the Taiwanese that had a mainland Chinese background to carry out espionage. To do so, China first takes advantage of their 'kinship with the mainland China' or their patriotism.
The Taiwanese-born scholars are usually more influential than their Chinese-born counterparts in the US academic and political fields. Some of the Taiwanese-born scholars have little knowledge of the mainland Chinese society and may cherish illusions for 'the prosperity of China'. In addition, since China opened its door to the outside world, some of them may have had their own business interest in China. There used to be a case where a politician with a Taiwanese background committed a political bribery in the interest of China.
The US intelligence people generally believe that most of the sensitive US national laboratories that are now relatively open to the public have long been the targets China tries to penetrate. For instance, in the 1980s, a large group of Chinese scholars paid a visit to the California-based Lawrence Libamore National Research Institute, which possesses the manufacturing technology of neutron bombs. Not long after that, China declared the explosion of its first neutron bomb on September 29, 1988.
A little earlier in Russia, an espionage was uncovered where the former GRU people helped the Chinese intelligence agents collect and steal the guiding system of the SU27 fighter plane. There were indications that this espionage went directly deep into the Russian air force.
