What the public is rightly alarmed about is the bizarre legal loophole that allows ROC citizens to become CCP members while enjoying the full benefits of their citizenship, including running for public office. The act stipulates that the penalty for ROC citizens taking up CCP membership is at most a fine of NT$500,000. For example, the CCP could cultivate Taiwanese party members en masse and insert them into the nation’s educational system or other strata it wishes to influence. Such actions would effectively weaken the nation’s recognition of the Chinese threat and allow the CCP freedom of action in Taiwan to a large degree. For example, the CCP compromised the highest echelons of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) during their historical feud.

Source: Taipei Times December 05, 2017 15:56 UTC