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Declassified US strategy document stirs debate
‘EFFECTIVE DETERRENCE’: If the Biden administration suspends arms sales to Taiwan, the military could still ready a nimble fighting force for defense, an analyst said
By Wu Su-wei, Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The “US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” last week sparked debate among analysts after US President Donald Trump declassified the document 20 years ahead of schedule.
Trump on Tuesday last week released the document that had governed US strategic action in the region since the US leader approved its use in 2018.
The document, which outlines US priorities in the region, emphasizes the importance of defending Taiwan against military aggression and facilitating the country’s development of asymmetric strategies and capabilities.
US Imports: If pork proven safe, I will eat it, critic says
OUT IN THE COLD: Su Wei-shuo and activists took a letter and poem to the AIT asking the US not to export meat containing ractopamine to Taiwan, but they were not received
By Aaron Tu
and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with Staff writer
Clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩), who has been accused of spreading false information about the effects of ractopamine on humans, yesterday said he would eat pork containing the drug if the president could prove it was safe.
Su, who has been an outspoken critic of such imports from the US, and who the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has expressed support for, is under investigation after the Ministry of Health and Welfare on Oct. 28 filed a formal complaint against him with the police, for allegedly spreading misinformation about ractopamine in contravention of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全�
Taiwan on best defense track: expert
By Aaron Tu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Asymmetrical warfare and groups of warships, together with land-based missiles on trucks, still constitute Taiwan’s best national defense strategy, a security analyst said yesterday.
Su Tzu-yun (蘇紫雲), an associate research fellow at the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research, made the comments following Monday’s launch ceremony for a second Tuo Jiang-class corvette.
The navy is expected to receive delivery of the new corvette in 2025, following sea trials, with two more corvettes expected to follow.
The Coast Guard Administration’s (CGA) requisition of 12 Anping-class corvettes similar to the Tuo Jiang, but with added facilities and equipment for rescue operations are expected to be delivered by 2026, along with a prototype from the indigenous submarine program.