WASHINGTON, USA – The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new occasional report titled Employing Public Records to Uncover CCP United Front Networks in Taiwan’s Temples.
This report, written by GTI Research Fellow Benjamin Sando, is the first public report to employ Sayari database software, which compiles corporate public records in a searchable format, to reveal Chinese Communist Party United Front Networks in Taiwan’s temples.
Among the revelations contained in the report are:
- Unlawful Influence Positions: A Taiwanese national suspected of violating Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Act by serving as a member of the Quanzhou CPPCC (中國人民政治協商會議).
- Lucrative Cross-Strait Religious Tours : An incentive scheme through which the vice-chairman of one of Taiwan’s most powerful temples—Jenn Lann Temple (鎮瀾宮)—earns profits by bringing Taiwanese Mazu believers to a Mazu Cultural Park he helped develop in Tianjin, China.
- Temple Donations by PRC-connected Taiwanese : An overseas Taiwanese businessperson —representing a firm carrying out contracts for the PRC government—distributing NTD 300,000 in cash to Taiwanese citizens at a Jenn Lann Temple event.
Download the report here.