00:00A former lieutenant general has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for plotting
00:05to help China invade Taiwan. Gao Anguo, the highest-ranking officer ever convicted of
00:11spying for Beijing, was found guilty, along with five other retired officers, of taking
00:17Chinese money to build a spy network in Taiwan. The court confiscated more than $130,000 in
00:25illegal funds linked to the group. Prosecutors said that if China ever tried to invade Taiwan,
00:31the group planned to work with Chinese forces to overthrow Taiwan's government. Gao had travelled
00:37to China several times and even released a video urging Taiwanese soldiers not to resist
00:43if war broke out.
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