Zhang Xianyi was born in 1945 as a Taiwanese, a time when many Taiwanese regarded the mainland as a backward place and bowed to the United States that suppressed the development of the new China.
Therefore, there were many traitors in Taiwan that year, stealing intelligence from the mainland while trying their best to curry favor with the United States.
In this group of people, once, Zhang Xianyi, as a Taiwanese who was arranged by the Taiwan authorities to go to the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute, people subconsciously thought that you and the Taiwan authorities colluded.
However, what Zhang Xianyi did was greatly unexpected.
Although he was Taiwanese and accepted the invitation of the Americans, he really hindered the development process of Taiwan's atomic bomb.
What's going on here? What kind of person is Zhang Xianyi?
Zhang Xianyi, a nuclear weapons expert
Just as Japan does not even write the history of aggression against China in their history textbooks in order to whitewash its past sins.
The Kuomintang government, which has just arrived in Taiwan, has also put a lot of "efforts" into education.
They usually instill the concept of "poor and backward" in the mainland to the Taiwanese and constantly belittle the mainland.
Now, with the faster and wider spread of network information, as well as the development of China's infrastructure, the information gap between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is getting smaller and smaller, and the new generation of Taiwanese people have more and more understanding of the mainland, so as not to be blindly misled and blinded by the Taiwan government.
However, this was not the case in the era when Zhang Xianyi grew up, and many people were brainwashed by the Kuomintang from a very young age.
Zhang Xianyi is an outstanding graduate of the physics department of the Taipei Army Institute of Technology, with outstanding achievements, and is one of many people who have been brainwashed by the Kuomintang.
Therefore, after graduating from university in 1967, Zhang Xianyi was arranged by the Taiwan government to serve in the preparatory office of the Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences.
And his job, naturally, is to develop new and more powerful weapons for Taiwan.
After all, as early as three years ago, when Zhang Xianyi was still in college, the first atomic bomb on the mainland of the motherland was successfully tested, and when the huge mushroom cloud slowly rose on the Chinese land, it affected the different minds of many forces.
The sons and daughters of China are excited, the US Government is angry, and the Taiwan authorities are worried.
Taiwan understands that it is not the mainland that is lagging behind, but itself, so they have invested full manpower, material resources, and energy in the development of atomic bombs, hoping to have military strength that can compete with the mainland as soon as possible.
At first, Zhang Xianyi also felt that there was no problem in doing so, and Taiwan should strengthen itself.
Therefore, when working in the preparatory office of the Zhongshan Academy of Sciences, he was conscientious and diligent, in order to make breakthroughs in his work as soon as possible.
It was precisely because Zhang Xianyi's outstanding scientific research ability and serious work that the Taiwan authorities at that time planned to select a few people to go to the United States for further study in order to train more talents in weapons development for themselves.
Coincidentally, Zhang Xianyi is one of them.
In 1969, Chang was selected by the Taiwan government to study deep nucleon engineering at the University of Tennessee in the United States.
Zhang Xianyi lived up to his skills and successfully graduated with a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee.
But what the Taiwan government did not expect was that Zhang Xianyi's experience and experience in the United States completely changed his concept.
Seeing Through the "Tricks" of the Taiwan Authorities
In fact, the United States does not want Taiwan to master the technology for the development of atomic bombs at all.
Because in the eyes of the Americans, Taiwan is nothing more than a "pawn".
Who would want a pawn to really have ideas and strength? Isn't that hard to control?
Therefore, as early as when Zhang Xianyi just got off the plane, the CIA people targeted him in order to "counteract" him.
Therefore, the CIA first arranged for people to approach Zhang Xianyi in his daily life and studies, and instilled in him some ideas that nuclear weapons should not be developed on a large scale.
When Zhang Xianyi does not contradict these concepts, the CIA will "brainwash" him, saying that Taiwan's possession of nuclear weapons will not only not strengthen its own strength, but will arouse the suspicion of the mainland and the United States.
Finally, the CIA promised Zhang Xianyi heavy benefits, promising that he would be treated well as he joined the R&D team in the United States.
In this process, Zhang Xianyi's ideas and concepts were constantly collided, broken, and reconstructed.
The key to the turn was that he met a girl from the mainland of his homeland during his studies in the United States.
The girl also came to the United States to study, and the two unconsciously developed feelings for each other in daily life contact.
And Zhang Xianyi also learned a lot about the "truth" between Taiwan and the mainland in this girl's story.
This made Zhang Xianyi understand that his deep-rooted concept of hatred of the mainland was deliberately created by the Taiwan government for his own selfish desires, and that was simply not the attitude he should have towards the mainland.
At this time, Zhang Xianyi's three views have been completely rebuilt.
Although his relationship with the girl unfortunately did not come to the end, Zhang Xianyi also saw through the true intentions of the Taiwan government, so he decided to join the US camp to curb the process of Taiwan's research into nuclear weapons.
At this time, Zhang Xianyi was no longer willing to be a pawn of the Taiwan authorities.
Therefore, under the training of the CIA, Zhang Xianyi also mastered some skills that should be used as a "spy", such as how to steal data, how to secretly transmit data, how to anti-track and so on.
And these changes by Zhang Xianyi were all made without the knowledge of the Taiwan authorities.
This also led to a funny picture when Zhang Xianyi returned to Taiwan.
The Taiwanese government thought that they were greeting a nuclear weapons expert with a heart for Taiwan, while Zhang Xianyi's heart had long been successfully countered by the United States.
Defected to the United States and slapped Taiwan in the face
Speaking of which, before Zhang Xianyi returned to Taiwan, the Taiwan government also conducted a two-year all-round surveillance of Zhang Xianyi in order to protect its own interests.
It can only be said that perhaps the means of the Taiwan government are still worse than those of the United States, anyway, in the past two years, they have not been able to catch Zhang Xianyi's handle, but feel that this person is quite "reliable".
Therefore, when Zhang Xianyi returned to Taiwan in 1976, Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the leader of the Kuomintang, personally entertained him and arranged Zhang Xianyi to enter the Chinese Academy of Sciences again.
In 1984, Zhang Xianyi was promoted to colonel and deputy director, becoming a core personnel in Taiwan's secret research on nuclear weapons.
Since then, Zhang Xianyi has begun to transmit Taiwan intelligence to the United States while pretending to help Taiwan develop nuclear weapons.
Even during his years at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Xianyi was appreciated by the Taiwan government, and in 1984 he was promoted to deputy director of the colonel and became the core personnel of Taiwan's nuclear weapons research and development agency.
However, it is precisely because of Zhang Xianyi that the progress of Taiwan's nuclear weapons research and development has been delayed again and again.
This is something that the Taiwanese government has never thought of.
However, although Zhang Xianyi will not try his best to help Taiwan develop an atomic bomb, he cannot sit still and eat empty pay, which will surely be suspected by the Taiwan government soon, so he will still show a little true ability from time to time.
In this way, in 1987, Taiwan initially had the ability to develop atomic bombs.
Zhang Xianyi, who learned the news, was so anxious that Taiwan's atomic bomb was successfully developed, that is, his dereliction of duty as a spy; But if the United States is allowed to intervene at this time, then his identity will definitely be exposed, and the Taiwan government will not let him go.
Therefore, Zhang Xianyi did not stop doing anything, simply took advantage of the University of Tennessee to invite him to participate in the 193rd anniversary celebration, and after the CIA on the streets, they quickly arranged how to move Zhang Xianyi's family to the United States.
After the family settled in the United States in 1988 with fake passports, Zhang Xianyi attended a secret hearing in the United States and told the United States about Taiwan's secret development of nuclear weapons.
President Reagan immediately ordered a raid on Taiwan's nuclear weapons research institute, taking all the equipment with him.
Taiwan's great plan for the development of atomic bombs fell short because of Zhang Xianyi.
No matter how Zhang Xianyi's defection to the United States should be evaluated, his obstruction of Taiwan's development of nuclear weapons is indeed of great benefit to cross-strait reunification.
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