President William Lai (賴清德) in a high-level national security meeting in March introduced 17 response strategies to counter China’s infiltration, “united front” operations and sovereignty challenges toward Taiwan. A member of a pro-unification group holds a Chinese flag at a protest in Taipei in an undated photograph. Draft amendments to the National Security Act include expanding the definition of what constitutes unlawful involvement in organizations and adding administrative penalties for speech advocating war, the official said. The draft amendments would increase criminal penalties by 50 percent for active-duty personnel or civil servants who deliberately contravene the National Security Act, the officials said. China’s hostility toward Taiwan is intensifying and it is relentlessly trying to infiltrate Taiwan with its “united front” tactics, the official said.
