Taipei, Oct. 13 -- China's expanding digital interference campaign has now reached into Taiwan's opposition politics, weaponising artificial intelligence and online disinformation to fracture the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and test Taiwan's democratic resilience, as reported by the Taipei Times.

According to the Taipei Times, experts believe the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) aim is not to openly support any specific KMT chair candidate but to generate internal suspicion and dependence within the party. This covert manipulation is part of Beijing's long-term effort to infiltrate Taiwan's political landscape through "cognitive warfare".

Former Taipei mayor and KMT chair contender Hau Lung-bin said on Facebook that he was being targ...