MND Responds to China Invasion Remarks|美智庫指共軍可能登台作戰 防長:已備戰力

Recently, a U.S. think tank scholar has broached the idea that the Communist People's Liberation Army may try to take Taiwan by force by landing on Taiwan. In response, Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa said on Oct 3, during a report at the Legislative Yuan, that Taiwan's Military has already conducted a beach landing prevention capability survey, and that defense is the priority when using low-quantity, high-quality forces to safeguard Taiwan's sovereignty in an asymmetrical warfare.


American scholar Ian Easton recently broached the possibility that China could launch a full-blown invasion of Taiwan and listed 14 possible landing beaches on the Taiwan coast. National Defense Minister Yen De-fa says Taiwan's military has already fully surveyed China's landing combat capabilities and the ministry has already sent two assault vehicles, submarines and other machinery for the armed forces to conduct beach landing inspections and make necessary changes. With China's military spending outstripping Taiwan's 15:1, how can Taiwan's military respond to threats?

(The U.S. report said) Taiwan is moving toward a volunteer military, which would be even more expensive than initially believed. This would put more strain on Taiwan's limited national defense resources and affect military purchases, training and maintenance resources. Do you agree with this?

The entire budget of the Ministry of National Defense is spent on defending (Taiwan) in asymmetrical warfare. We have to wage low-quantity, high-quality warfare to be able to protect Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu and the sovereignty of the Republic of China.

The ministry has been busy. It recently ordered private universities to stop paying the pensions of part-time employees who are veterans, citing the newly revised Act of Military Service for Officers and Noncommissioned Officers of the Armed Forces. As the Tsai administration's pension reforms went into effect this year and the ministry accidentally dated the notices 2019, many universities have not complied. Yen admits negligence.

You have no reason to put the blame and responsibility on them and then talk about transfers. You can't do that. Our government can't keep letting officials use their power to suppress the masses and make their lives harder. (We will take a look).

As for whether the "unsafe" encounter between a U.S. Navy ship and Chinese warship in the South China Sea would escalate tensions between the two sides, Yen said the ministry keeps a close watch on regional conditions and Taiwan will take whatever action is needed to fulfill its role of maintainer of peace in the region.