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
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China maintains the Taiwan question isn't open to negotiation and that it is still a central objective to reunify the renegade province with the mainland. Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Joe Biden during a virtual summit this.
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.
China maintains the Taiwan question isn’t open to negotiation and that it is still a central objective to reunify the renegade province with the mainland. 30.11.2021, Sputnik International