Chinese authorities have placed bounties on 18 Taiwanese military personnel accused of conducting psychological operations and spreading messages Beijing considers “separatist.”

Police in the coastal city of Xiamen announced the rewards on Saturday, offering up to $1,400 for information leading to the arrest of officers they described as core members of Taiwan’s psychological warfare division.

The move came one day after Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te pledged to bolster the island’s defences with a new air protection system and increased military spending.

Authorities published photographs, names and identification numbers of the individuals, claiming they operated websites for disinformation campaigns, created online games promoting independence and produced misleading video

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