Taiwan to spend US$2.5b on anti-missile systems. TAIPEI: Taiwan plans to spend TW$74.8 billion (S$3.1 billion, US$2.5 billion) in the next nine years to acquire anti-missile systems to boost its aerial defences against China, a lawmaker and media said Saturday.
The defence ministry aims to purchase the locally-made Tien Kung 3 (Sky Bow 3) surface-to-air missile system between 2015 and 2024 to replace the ageing Hawk missile systems, said lawmaker Lin Yu-fang of the parliament's defence committee. This will be the biggest procurement of domestically-made weapon systems in recent years, Lin said, citing a defence budget plan submitted to the parliament for approval on Friday.
The Tien Kung 3 surface-to-air missile system, developed by Taiwan's Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, is designed to counter tactical ballistic missiles for air defence missions and missile interception, according to Lin. China’s Anti-Carrier Missile Now Opposite Taiwan, Flynn Says - Bloomberg - Pale Moon. The Chinese military has deployed its new anti-ship ballistic missile along its southern coast facing Taiwan, the Pentagon’s top military intelligence officer said today.
The missile, designated the DF-21D, is one of a “growing number of conventionally armed” new weapons China is deploying to the region, adding to more than 1,200 short-range missiles opposite the island democracy, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the Defense Intelligence Agency director, said in a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Flynn’s reference to the DF-21D follows one made by U.S.
Navy Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, in congressional testimony on April 9. Taiwan to aim 50 medium-range missiles at China: report. Taiwan is set to produce 50 medium-range missiles next year that will target military bases in southeast China, a media report said on Monday.
The article came after former defence minister Michael Tsai revealed in a recently published book that the island successfully created medium-range guided missiles that could be used against rival China back in 2008. The "Yun Feng" (Cloud Peak) missile has been developed by the state-run Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology and each has a range of over 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), said the Taipei-based China Times, citing unnamed military sources. The missiles will be deployed in the mountains in central Taiwan from next year to aim at military targets, including airports and missile bases, along China's southeastern coast, the report said. Taiwan has been researching missiles of this type to counter threats from China after it fired missiles near the island in 1996, according to the report. Taiwan develops 'medium-range missile' La fin d'un silence de 60 ans. La Chine et Taiwan ont échangé leur premier message officiel direct, lundi.
Chinese mainland, Taiwan agree joint maritime rescue exercise. XIAMEN, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have agreed to hold a joint maritime search and rescue exercise every other year, taking turns to be the host, Vice Minister of Transport Xu Zuyuan said Thursday.
Xu made the announcement on Thursday during the ongoing cross-strait maritime rescue exercise, the second such exercise since both parts launched their first one in 2010. The exercise aims to meet the mounting safeguard need of maritime emergency rescues after Chinese mainland and Taiwan started direct flights and shipment of commodities in 2008. The drill, set in the waters between Xiamen and Jinmen on the Taiwan Strait, consists of multiple scenarios, including rescue operations for overturned fishing boats and rescuing people overboard, officials said. Obama hints at shift on Taiwan F-16 sale. F-16 Taïwanais: la Chine proteste. Le ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères Yang Jiechi a demandé aujourd'hui aux Etats-Unis de revenir sur leur décision de moderniser les chasseurs F-16 taïwanais lors d'une rencontre avec son homologue Hillary Clinton.
M. Cable Viewer. Viewing cable 05PARIS1139, CODEL SMITH MEETS CHIRAC, FRENCH OFFICIALS, Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. Taiwan Says General Spied for China. La frontière sino-taiwanaise. While U.S. is Distracted, China Develops Sea Power.
U.S.-PRC South Sea flap and Taiwan's choices - Taiwan News Online. Taiwan must clearly evaluate its strategic options in the new phase of contestation for regional influence between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China signalled by Washington's resolve to maintain freedom of the seas based on "international rules" in the South China Sea.
This newfound resolve was signalled July 22 by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement to a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in Hanoi that resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea is a "leading diplomatic priority" for Washington. Her statement clearly clashed with the intention of the PRC to turn the South China Sea, through which most regional shipping passes, into a virtual "Chinese lake. " In her statement, Clinton pointedly stressed that Washington "supports a collaborative diplomatic process by all claimants for resolving the various territorial disputes without coercion" and opposes "the use or threat of force by any claimant.
" Pour Taïwan, les armes US auront un "impact positif", Asie-Pacif. “This Would be the Signal for General Nuclear W. In August 1958, five nuclear capable B-47 bombers on Guam were placed on alert.
According to today’s hot doc, the US Air Force was ready and willing to drop nuclear bombs on Communist China at the outset of the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. This 13 August 1958 State Department memo describes blow-by-blow how a dispute over two islands in the Taiwan Strait could have evolved into “general nuclear war between the US and the USSR.” This memo, sent to President Eisenhower’s Under Secretary of State, Christian Herter, depicts how nuclear war between the USA and USSR could have evolved from a dispute between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China over the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Nukes in the Taiwan Crisis » FAS Strategic Security Blog. .
By Hans M. Kristensen. Channel NewsAsia - Taiwan's military simulates Chinese air attac. China's rise is a hu. Taiwan signe un accord commercial majeur avec La Chine. Pékin s’engage à réduire ses droits de douane sur 540 produits taïwanais.
En échange, Taiwan diminuera ses taxes à l’import sur 270 produits chinois. Plus favorable à Taiwan qu’à Pékin, cet accord pourrait, selon la banque Citigroup, augmenter le produit intérieur brut de l'île dès l'année prochaine L'entente concerne aussi les établissements financiers. Les banques taïwanaises qui s’installent sur le continent, bénéficieront, ainsi, des mêmes privilèges que celles de Hong-Kong qui fait officiellement partie de la Chine. Cette ouverture a commencé il y a un an avec l'autorisation de flux de capitaux.
Avec près de 90 milliards de dollars d’échanges en 2009, la Chine est devenue le premier partenaire commercial de Taiwan et aussi son premier investisseur étranger.