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Taiwan professor detained for spying for China

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A prosecutor says a Taiwanese political science professor has been detained for providing data on visiting Chinese activists to Beijing.

Huang Mou-hsin says Wu Chang-yu of Central Police University was detained Friday pending filing of formal charges.

Taiwan’s United Daily News quoted unidentified sources as saying Wu frequently visited China to lecture on fortunetelling — his other specialty. It says Chinese officials offered him fortunetelling businesses in exchange for spying on the Taiwan activities of selected Chinese. None of the alleged targets were named.

Taiwan and China continue to spy on each other despite a recent improvement in their relationship amid growing economic ties. The two sides split amid civil war in 1949.