By Lee Hsin-fang and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Executive Yuan yesterday promised to purchase bulletproof equipment and ease rules governing firearm use for police after two officers were killed in Tainan while pursuing a suspect on Monday.
By Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe nation should build a class of second-line ships to offset the numerical advantage of Chinese frigates, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ting-yu （王定宇） said, referring to disputes that stalled the navy’s next-generation guided missile frigate program.
By Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer and ReutersThe Ministry of National Defense yesterday denied that Chinese forces came close to Penghu County, after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army （PLA） published footage purportedly recorded near the county.
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday denied that Chinese forces came close to Penghu County, after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) published footage purportedly recorded near the county.
China launched military exercises around Taiwan after the visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month, as well as during a visit by five US lawmakers on Sunday and Monday.
The PLA’s Eastern Theater Command on Monday released video footage of Penghu, apparently taken from a Chinese military plane.
Air force Vice Chief of Staff for Operations Tung Pei-lun (董培倫) told reporters in Taipei that the footage amounted to information
DRILLS CONTINUE: China’s creation of a restricted zone across the median line of the Taiwan Strait challenges a 70-year-old fact, a ministry of defense official saidBy Aaron Tu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer