A Taiwanese court has laid out how a China-born spouse took orders from Chinese officials to sway the 2024 presidential race, a damaging finding for the Taiwan People's Party figures she worked to promote.

• Hsu Chun-ying, former head of the TPP's new-immigrants committee, got seven years for helping China meddle in Taiwan's election.
• The ruling says she reported to two Chinese officials handling cross-strait marriage affairs and united-front work, treating them as bosses.
• She messaged one of them a photo and account of a lunch with Ko Wen-je, saying he told her the party did plan to organize among China-born spouses — a meeting Ko later denied to reporters.
• Her handlers coached her through the party-list controversy, promised to deal with people smearing her, offered to bury bad news about her residency papers, and sent her COVID test kits to hand out and build her standing.
• One handler passed along Beijing's line to push young voters toward Ko, and called any result above a quarter of the vote a win; the same pair also backed campaign events for Huang Shan-shan.

Outlook: The detailed findings sharpen legal and political pressure on the TPP over how deep Beijing's reach into its networks went.