China ready to interfere in local elections: NSBINTENSIFYING THREATS: Beijing’s tactics include massive attacks on the government service network, aircraft and naval vessel incursions and damaging undersea cablesBy Huang Ching-hsuan and Shelley Shan / Staff reportersChina is prepared to interfere in November’s nine-in-one local elections by launching massive attacks on the Taiwanese government’s service network (GSN), a report published by the National Security Bureau showed. The report was submitted to the Legislative Yuan ahead of the bureau’s scheduled briefing at the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee tomorrow. The national security team has identified about 13,000 suspicious Internet accounts and 860,000 disputed messages, the bureau said of China’s cognitive warfare against Taiwan. A graphic shows the activities of China’s hydrographic and research vessels around Taiwan. Last year, there were four incidents involving damage to undersea cables serving Taiwan’s outling islands, three of which were suspected to have been caused by Chinese vessels, it said.

Source: Taipei Times April 06, 2026 17:13 UTC