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Taiwan enacts the Anti-Infiltration Act

On 31 December 2019 Taiwan enacted the Anti-Infiltration Act targeting PRC political donations and campaign interference. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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On 31 December 2019 Taiwan enacted the Anti-Infiltration Act targeting PRC political donations and campaign interference.

Context

The LY passed it. She promulgated. Opposition called it a green-terror chill. A statute is still a dated civic-space-and-security instrument.

CTi licence fight is a neighbouring later media row. 2020 re-election is the neighbouring later mandate.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; Lai Ching-te is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void.

Why it matters

The path is democratic resilience and digital-rights regulation: a completed anti-interference statute can raise election security and can chill lawful opposition speech.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Tsai Ing-wen

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.6 · verified

    DPP LY majority passed. She promulgated. Courts apply. Opposition contested the chill.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Taiwan passes anti-infiltration law amid China tensionReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.MOJ — Act for Implementation of J.Y. Interpretation No. 748, 17 May 2019Ministry of Justice Taiwan · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Ministry of Justice Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 31 December 2019 Anti-Infiltration Act, independently reported as passed and promulgated.

Not established: that every later opposition act was foreign, or a unique later conviction count from gazetting day.

She promulgated. Courts apply. Opposition contested the chill.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Taiwan enacts the Anti-Infiltration Act, not a later speech about Taiwan enacts the Anti-Infiltration Act.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to DPP LY majority passed. She promulgated. Courts apply. Opposition contested the chill. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorTsai Ing-wen
  2. contributed toFactTaiwan enacts the Anti-Infiltration Act
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Democratic Resilience
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Taiwan enacts the Anti-Infiltration Act. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-anti-infiltration-2019

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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