Chinese spouse receives additional 18 months

By Tsai Ching-hua and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The Ciaotou District Court on Friday ruled that Chinese immigrant Zhou Manzhi (周滿芝) must serve an additional 18 months in prison for contravening the Anti-infiltration Act (反滲透法) after intervening in Taiwanese elections under orders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Zhou had once been a member of the Shanxi Province Patriotic Volunteer Association and the China Patriotism Volunteer Association, groups whose core missions are to promote Beijing’s “united front” rhetoric, the ruling said.The court accepted the argument that the associations were controlled by the CCP’s United Front Work Department, a ministerial-level agency reporting directly to the party’s Central Committee. Chinese immigra