Taiwan Under Pres. Ma Ying-Jeou

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Jens Kastner, Taiwan's Hot-Cold Cross-Strait Relations; The military
installs Patriot 3s at the same time it seeks to institutionalize bilateral
cultural exchange. Asia Sentinel, Sept. 10, 2010.
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2689&Itemid=164

Quote:

"According to Taiwan's government-leaning media, the Taiwanese military is
to invest as much as US$9.4 billion for the establishment of a shield to
Taiwan against the missiles that the China's People's Liberation Army has
stationed across the narrow Taiwan Strait. The anti-missile initiative is
said to consist of two parts, an active and a passive one. The first aims to
prevent the launch of China's ballistic missiles in the first place by
destroying military bases along the coast, whereas the passive part's
objective remains shooting down incoming PLA missiles that get through
despite Taiwan's bombardment of China's coast.

"To support the PAC-3s, Taiwan is to deploy a long-range early warning radar
system that will give an estimated 7 to 10 minutes warning time that
provide the military with the ability to effectively monitor Chinese medium
and short-range missiles that were launched within a 3,000 km radius. The
radar, which is to be installed at the Hsinchu Leshan base on Taiwan's
northwest coast, is to be even more sophisticated than the US's own long-
range radar stations in Alaska. Both the Patriots and radar system are US-
made.

"To gain the ability to attack China's missile launch bases, however, Taiwan
plans to resort to locally-produced weaponry. Its Ching-kuo jet fighters,
commonly known as the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), have been improved
and are to be outfitted with Tien Chien-2A (Sky Sword) anti-radiation
missiles as well as cluster bombs with the ability to destroy China's
airfields, ports and radar stations along China's southeastern coast.
Nonetheless, the most powerful weapon Taiwan is about to deploy, government
officials say, is the Hsiungfeng 2E cruise missile which, with an estimated
range of around 800 km, could strike Chinese mega-cities such as Shanghai
and Hong Kong as well as military bases.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.
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