Arrested with the Lins were Cai Caiyuan, the Prime Minister of the State Council; Wu Lixiang, the TCG Minister of Tainan; Ye Bilian, the Minister of Finance; and Xu Yiming and Xiang Jing You. After being interrogated the Lins were held in solitary confinement while the others were released on bond. Seized in the raids was 130 million yuan, guns and jewelry.
Although the Lins enjoyed a luxury lifestyle, they spent a lot of money pursuing their agenda of independence for Taiwan. That money is what has Washington insiders nervous. Taiwan Civil Government has even hosted an event at the National Press Club.
Politico magazine has co-sponsored multiple events with Taiwan Civil Government including its Inauguration Hub party. Julian Lin attended the Trump inauguration with a TCG delegation. When asked to comment on the relationship with TCG a spokesman for Politico first was out of the office then refused to respond.
Foreign Policy , another TCG-funded media house, decided to "pass" on the story of the Lin arrest and offers no explanation for their co-sponsorship of an event last year.
Neil Hare, a well-paid lobbyist for TCG, registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent under his company name Global Vision Communications, has refused to say anything about his clients' arrests. A mouthpiece who shuts up when the going gets rough, instead of offering spin, suggests fear of being caught up in a ROC dragnet.
None of the media houses that took money from TCG have reported on the arrests. Although the arrests were reported in China and Europe there has been no media coverage in the United States. Thus far the most comprehensive coverage comes out of Taiwan in the on-line journal New Bloom, an outgrowth of the Sunflower student movement.
The arrests of the the Lins has focused attention to Taiwan's unresolved status and promises to advance the TCG message as the public grapples with the question, fraudsters or political prisoners?
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