Four Taiwan soldiers charged with spying for China

This handout photo taken and released on December 6, 2024 by the Taiwan Presidential office shows Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te speaking during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new "one-stop" government services building in Palau that Taiwan helped fund. [AFP]

Four Taiwanese soldiers, including three from a unit in charge of security for the president's office, were charged Friday for photographing and leaking confidential information to China, prosecutors and the president's office said.

China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since 1949, but Beijing insists the island is part of its territory and has vowed to seize it one day.