Taiwan's prosecutors indicted ten people on Tuesday on espionage charges, including nine current and retired military personnel accused of filming loyalty pledges to the Chinese Communist Party and leaking classified military information in exchange for money. The suspects, who served across the army, navy, air force, and coast guard, were allegedly recruited and bribed via social media by a foreign group described by prosecutors as linked to the CCP; a tenth civilian is charged with providing his bank account to facilitate payments to military personnel. The case marks a sharp escalation in a long-running intelligence contest: Taiwan's National Security Bureau recorded 64 espionage prosecutions linked to China in 2024, up from 48 in 2023, and the trial will be the first national-security case in Taiwan to be heard before a jury under a law passed three years ago.