Defense tech vulnerable to espionage: academics

Taiwanese academics urged the government to improve the protection of defense technologies from Chinese espionage, citing fears that leaks might compromise arms sales and technology transfers. The Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office said that prosecutors obtained convictions on 222 breaches of the National Security Act (國家安全法) from January 2015 to September last year, but only 19 cases resulted in a sentence of six months or more in prison. Hsu Chih-hsiang (許智翔), a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said that the US is keen on preventing China's theft of advanced technologies as competition between the powers…