TAIPEI: Taiwan's High Court on Monday (Sep 30) sentenced a former air force officer and instructor to 17 years in prison for "aiding the enemy" over espionage activities carried out on behalf of China. Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has ramped up military and political pressure on the democratic island in recent years. The two sides split in 1949 after a civil war and have been spying on each other since. Lou Wen-ching, a former instructor at the Air Force Flight Training