Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education’s (MOE’s) Campus Security Report Center (CSRC), as of 9 p.m. on Monday (Sept. 19), a total of 532 schools in 19 counties and cities across the country reported earthquake damage. Initial damage estimates have reached NT115.7 million. […]
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Backlink: REUTERS China will impose sanctions on the chief executives of Boeing Defense and Raytheon over their involvement in Washington’s latest arms sales to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS The Taiwanese have been listening to threats of military force for seventy-two years. Since the deaths of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), the Chinese have not heard any violent threats coming from Taiwan. […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS The military tracked five Chinese warships and 26 Chinese military aircraft around Taiwan on Thursday (Sept. 15), and among two types of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) detected was the WZ-7 Soaring Dragon, which was spotted for the first time in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ). […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA The Philippines would let U.S. forces use the Southeast Asian nation’s military bases in the event of a Taiwan conflict only “if it is important for us, for our own security,” the Philippine ambassador to the U.S. says. Jose Manuel Romualdez, who is a relative of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS The Ministry of National Defense said Friday (Sept. 2) it had moved anti-drone guns to the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu following several incidents with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) believed to have flown in from China. […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS UMC founder Robert Tsao labels Chinese propaganda as ‘nonsense’. Tsao, the founder of the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), called a press conference to show his national ID card, saying he had renounced his Singaporean citizenship for Taiwanese citizenship. He said he would stay in Taiwan to defend […]
Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS ‘Pre- and post-Chinese invasion-related evacuation scenarios’ to be discussed behind closed doors. Japanese lawmakers last week agreed to begin talks with Taiwan’s government on contingencies for the evacuation of its citizens from Taiwan if China invades. Although there are currently no signs of an invasion, if a PLA assault on Taiwan […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS Package includes 60 anti-ship missiles, 100 air-to-air missiles, and surveillance radar President Biden is reportedly preparing to request that Congress give the green light for a US$1.1 billion (NT$30.4 billion) weapons sale to Taiwan that includes at least 160 anti-ship and air-to-air missiles. […]
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Backlink: NDTV But Taiwan has been particularly upset recently by Chinese drones flying very close to islands it controls next to China’s coast, which President Tsai said was part of Beijing’s “grey zone” warfare. The more China provokes the more calm Taiwan must be, but restraint does not mean there cannot be “strong countermeasures” […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings over Taiwan’s outer islands will be shot down The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Sunday (Aug. 28) announced that soldiers will shoot down intruding Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings after yet more footage surfaced showing Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) compromising […]
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