Overview
- Taiwan's National Security Bureau launched a bilingual webpage on Sunday that offers Chinese nationals a secure channel to submit intelligence-related tips to Taipei.
- The site features a one-minute AI-generated promotional video titled "Change" that depicts a Chinese civil servant watching colleagues being investigated and urges viewers to provide information.
- The NSB published step-by-step procedures and six operational-security guidelines that recommend using non-Chinese-brand devices, restoring factory settings, avoiding real‑name Wi‑Fi, using VPNs and Western browsers, and browsing in private mode.
- The portal is blocked inside mainland China although many people can reach it with VPNs, and the NSB declined to answer follow-up questions about the legal and personal risks for informants while Beijing had not immediately commented.
- Taipei says the move follows practices used by U.S., U.K. and Israeli agencies, and analysts say it risks reciprocal escalation in cross‑strait intelligence activity and could raise new dangers for individuals who try to help Taiwan.