By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff writer, with CNATaiwan can profit from its technology prowess when promoting security cooperation, a former NATO official said.
A former reporter at Jane’s Defence Weekly early last month wrote on an online news platform that Taiwan in 2002 submitted a letter of intent to the US asking for the procurement of 100 F-35B jets. Regrettably, Washington apparently refuses to sell them 20 years later.
Similarly, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) in a legislative session in March asked Deputy Minister of National Defense Bo Hong-hui (柏鴻輝) about the progress of a AGM-158 long-range land-attack missile procurement from the US, but did not receive positive news.
Leakage of confidential information has seriously affected the relationship between the Taiwanese and the
DEFENSE
<strong>Deputy’s Facebook hacked</strong>
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday said that Deputy Minister of National Defense Bo Hong-hui’s (柏鴻輝) Facebook page had been hacked and was used to post an advertisement for a secondhand dehumidifier. “I am selling a dehumidifier, which I hardly use. The machine is well-preserved and functions normally,” the post said. The ministry took firewall security measures as soon as it was informed of the matter, it said, adding that military personnel do not handle confidential matters on Facebook or other social media.
WEATHER
<strong>More heat, rain this week</strong>
More hot weather is forecast for this week with a high chance
The Ministry of National Defense should speed up an evaluation of whether mandatory military service needs to be extended, a military expert said yesterday.
Retired army major general Richard Hu (胡瑞舟) made the comment after Deputy Minister of National Defense Bo Hong-hui (柏鴻輝) on Friday said that an assessment should take no more than one year.
China has been a continual threat, and the ministry and other national security agencies have been assessing the situation for years, so it should not take more than a couple of months to reassess what the nation needs, Hu said.
Before the government makes an announcement on
INCREASED TIME? An official said Ukraine’s resistance against Russia has inspired Taiwanese and is a reminder that survival depends on a will for national defenseBy Lee Hsin-fang, Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer