This essay, dated November 25, 2019, is based on an article from the Sankei Shimbun.
It introduces testimony allegedly provided to the Australian government by Wang Liqiang, who identified himself as a former Chinese spy.
The article covers operations involving a company under the People’s Liberation Army, infiltration of Hong Kong universities, online speech interference, the Causeway Bay Books disappearances, and influence operations in Taiwan’s elections.

November 25, 2019.
The company was under the General Staff Department of the People’s Liberation Army, then in existence, and Mr. Wang had students from mainland China infiltrate student organizations at Hong Kong universities, investigated information on pro-democracy movements on campus, and obstructed speech on the internet.
The following is from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.
Former Chinese spy testifies to operations.
Provided to Australian government, seeks asylum.
Taipei, Yasuto Tanaka.
On the 23rd, multiple Australian media outlets reported that a man who had engaged in Chinese espionage activities hoped to defect to Australia, where his wife and child live, and had provided the Australian government with information concerning operations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The interviews with the man were reportedly conducted jointly by the Sydney Morning Herald and others.
According to the paper’s electronic edition, the man identified himself as 27-year-old Wang Liqiang and provided the paper and others with images of Chinese and South Korean forged passports under false names.
According to the article, Mr. Wang was posted to Hong Kong in 2014 as an employee of a Chinese-affiliated company.
The company was under the General Staff Department of the People’s Liberation Army, then in existence, and Mr. Wang had students from mainland China infiltrate student organizations at Hong Kong universities, investigated information on pro-democracy movements on campus, and obstructed speech on the internet.
Mr. Wang testified that the company was also involved in the 2015 disappearance of five people connected with Causeway Bay Books, which handled books critical of the Chinese Communist Party.
In Taiwan, during last year’s unified local elections, he testified that he helped Chinese intelligence agencies establish a “cyber unit” in order to obstruct candidates of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and guide online debate.
He also testified that he assisted in exerting influence over the media and in providing “grassroots” funding to the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang.