KMT Institutes Catch-And-Release Program For Chinese Spies

It's all part of Chinese puppet president on Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou's ingenious Swiss-cheese defense strategy.  Build a big wall, then punch holes in it.  Or in 21st Century parlance, ask for advanced fighter aircraft -- then let spies take pics of military installations with impunity:

A Chinese tourist who was arrested on Monday for entering a military facility and taking pictures was released on his own recognizance late on Tuesday night.

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. . . [the Chinese "tourist"] was caught taking photos of military equipment installed at a computer warfare command center that is part of a military recruitment complex on Keelung Road in downtown Taipei. The recruitment center is open to the general public, but the computer warfare command area is a restricted facility.

Guy sneaks into a cyberwarfare center, and the Taiwanese authorities release him without bail.  Perish the thought that an honorable Communist Party member such as he would ever abscond !

(Compare that to former president Chen Shui-bian, who's has been held in pre-trial detention for 6 1/2 months.  But then, he doesn't have friends in Zhongnanhai places.)

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UPDATE:  Takes on this from The View from Taiwan and J. Michael Cole.

UPDATE (Jun 3/09):  The Chinese spy returns home, scot-free.  We'll be seeing a lot of this, I think.