For decades, Taipei has sought to mitigate the challenge posed by a quantitatively and qualitatively superior People’s Liberation Army Navy by building an indigenous conventional submarine force.
For more than two decades, Taiwan tried to buy a fleet of modern conventional submarines to fend off an existential threat invasion by China. There were no takers. The US, Taiwan’s main ally, has a nuclear-powered fleet and had not built diesel-powered subs in decades. Other nations balked, fearful of angering Beijing.
Now, as China under President Xi Jinping (習近平) steps up its military intimidation of Taiwan, an array of foreign submarine-technology vendors, with the approval of their governments, are aiding a secretive program to build subs in Taiwan. Taipei has stealthily sourced technology, components and talent from at least
Taipei has stealthily sourced technology, components and talent from at least seven nations to help it build a fleet with the potential to exact a heavy toll on any Chinese attack.
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