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Taiwan Coast Guard plans live-fire excercise on Taiping island, South China Sea
Taipei Times reports on planned exercise on Taiping Island (太平島) scheduled for the beginning of September. Defense of Taiping, the largest island in highly contested area of Spratly Islands, has been...
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Taiwan in the Context of US Missile Defense Infrastructure in Asia
Source: DefenseTech Wall Street Journal reported on August 23 about US plans to foster missile defense in Asia. According to WSJ, the centerpiece of the new deployment would be one X-band early...
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Taiwan News: Cyberwar, Chinese Missiles, South and East China Seas, and new...
Source: Focus Taiwan Several Taiwan-related news have surfaced this week. First, news agencies reported on September 2 that proposed defense budget for FY2013 submitted by National Security Bureau...
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Lockheed Martin awarded with Taiwan’s F-16 upgrade contract
According to expectations, Texas-based Lockheed Martin Aeronautics was awarded contract worth $1.85 billion for significant upgrade of Taiwan’s fleet of 145 F-16A/Bs acquired in early 1990s. Lockheed...
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Hsinchu-based EWR is operational
DPRK Rocket launch (November 2012) North Korea’s rocket launch has once again draw World’s attention to Korean peninsula but for Taiwan it was an important moment for quite different reason. As...
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Asymmetry, Taiwan’s Defense and Taiwan-U.S. Alliance
J. Michael Cole from Taipei Times and Jane’s Defence and James R. Holmes from U.S. Naval War College published two separate articles with the same message: contrary to conventional assumptions,...
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Special Issue: Taiwan’s Quadrennial Defense Review 2013
According to law, Ministry of National Defense is required to prepare defense review every four years within 10 months after President’s inauguration. First such review was prepared in 2009, second QDR...
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Asahi Shimbun: Taiwan to skip Senkakus claims in fisheries talks with Japan
Taiwan to skip Senkakus claims in fisheries talks with Japan China, Japan and Taiwan all claim the Senkaku-Diaoyu islands as sovereign territory. On Tuesday, coast guard vessels from Japan and Taiwan...
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Taiwan Navy’s New Fast Combat Support Ship Enters Service
New locally-built fast combat support ship AOE 532 Panshih (磐石) finished its sea trials and officially entered ROC Navy (ROCN) service on Friday, January 23, 2015. The 196 meters-long ship’s full load...
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