Taiwan council calls threats possible Chinese pressure — Taipei Times

In Taiwan, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said that threats made by unknown individuals in the name of Guan Jianzhong, the distributor of the documentary State Organs, could be a new method of transnational pressure by China. As Taipei Times reports, the agency has preliminarily classified the incidents as a possible case of such pressure.

Threats made in someone else’s name

MAC Deputy Chairman Liang Wenjie said that on at least three occasions, unknown individuals contacted people and organizations while posing as Guan. After reports from people and organizations that had been threatened, police questioned the distributor himself in connection with the cases. According to Liang, the purpose of such actions may have been to exhaust Guan through constant contact with law enforcement agencies.

In November 2025, someone using Guan’s phone number threatened a lawyer and demanded money. The following month, a similar incident occurred involving the Taiwanese civil defense group Kuma Academy. On September 29, a person who again identified himself as Guan and used his number threatened the Taiwan Falun Dafa Association.

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The case is under investigation

With MAC assistance, Guan filed a police report on Thursday. The council will coordinate work with the National Police Agency and Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice. Liang said the incidents do not appear to be simple cases of impersonation and threats, but may be a systematic operation. At the same time, those carrying out the threats have not yet been identified, and judicial authorities are investigating the circumstances of the case.

State Organs is a Canadian documentary about two families searching for missing loved ones, as well as allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. At the end of 2024, cinemas and other organizations screening the film in Taiwan received dozens of threats, including messages about allegedly planted bombs. At the time, Taiwan’s National Security Bureau said that the Criminal Investigation Bureau had traced threatening emails to foreign IP addresses and established that the senders had used VPNs.