OPINION / EDITORIAL
By Global Times Published: Apr 12, 2021 08:31 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Biden Administration s Priorities for U.S. Foreign Policy on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
The US and the island of Taiwan have recently been engaged in a war of public opinion over tensions across the Taiwan Straits. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday the US is concerned about China s aggressive actions against Taiwan and alleged that it would be a serious mistake for anyone to try to change that status quo [in the Western Pacific] by force. However, asked if the US would respond militarily to the Chinese mainland s actions against the island of Taiwan, Blinken declined to comment on a hypothetical
2021/04/08 14:28 An earlier version of the NCSIST radar system (Wikicommons, Hsuan Shih-sheng photo) An earlier version of the NCSIST radar system (Wikicommons, Hsuan Shih-sheng photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The military-run Youth Daily News accidentally revealed the presence of a sophisticated secret radar system in the island county of Penghu in the middle of the Taiwan Strait, reports said Thursday (April 8). The slip-up came as Taiwan faces almost daily incursions by Chinese military planes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and Chinese spy ships approach its waters, possibly to observe the missile tests planned for this month. A Navy unit wrote to Youth Daily News from Penghu on March 26 with pictures showing a military truck in front of a ship. While there was no comment in the report about those photos, English-language website Alert 5 said on March 29 that they showed an “anti-stealth passiv
No mass reprimands due to top-secret leak: MND
CLASSIFIED: Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng had disciplinary investigations opened on as many as 100 officers, an ‘Apple Daily’ source reported
By Wu Su-wei
and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday denied that there were mass dismissals after reportedly classified images of a top-secret radar system were leaked to the military’s own Youth Daily News.
The online article published on March 26 which has since been taken down reported on the Navy 151st Amphibious Fleet’s mission to resupply Magong City (馬公) in Penghu County, and was purportedly written by a political warfare officer serving on the tank landing ship ROCNS Chung Ho.