Student: Zhou and Taiwan

student: Prosecutors alleged that Zhou, 29, tried to recruit an official of the Foreign Ministry by offering him a free trip to Japan in exchange for delivering classified materials, according to The Japan Times. Reports said that Zhou, then a student at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, first came to Taiwan in 2009 as an exchange student at Tamkang University, New Taipei. Reports quoted prosecutors as saying that the former student, Zhou Hongxu, is being held incommunicado on suspicion of recruiting people to develop a spy ring in Taiwan. He later enrolled in a masters degree program at National Chengchi University in the capital Taipei and graduated in July last year. Zhou returned to Taiwan last month and asked the official whether he would be interested in delivering classified documents in exchange for an all-expenses-paid trip to Japan and a U.S. dollar reward, reports said. After Zhou returned to China in August, he continued to contact a young official of the Foreign Ministry with whom he made an acquaintance while a student. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.