The US should consider helping Taiwan build an indigenous defense industry to boost its qualitative military edge (QME), amid rising threats from China, similar to what the US has done for Israel, a local defense academic wrote in an article.
Wu Tzu-li (吳自立), a researcher at the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said in an article published on Friday by the institute’s journal, Defense Security Brief, that the long-standing US commitment to maintaining Israel’s QME forms a central pillar of the Jewish state’s security strategy.
US legislation passed in 2008 defined QME as “the ability to counter and defeat
Taipei, Nov. 21 (CNA) The United States should consider helping Taiwan build a sounder indigenous defense industry to boost its qualitative military edge, or QME, amid rising threat from China, as it has done with Israel for decades, a local defense scholar said recently.
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