Sosok.ID – Military Taiwan, far less than China in terms of weaponry.
Therefore Taiwan and United States of America (US) cooperates in the sale and purchase of sophisticated weapons packages.
Taiwan need to be prayed if you don’t want to run out at hand China.
Quoting Reuters, Tuesday (27/10), the US State Department has approved the potential sale of 100 Boeing Harpoon Coastal Defense Systems to Taiwan in a deal that has a potential value of up to US $ 2.37 billion, said Pentagon, Monday (26/10).
Even, Taiwan claims to be able to deploy 450,000 troops, including about 260,000 reservists and 185,000 standing troops – as a first response in the event of an invasion military.
The claim was put forward by National Defense Minister Yen De-fa at the Legislative meeting of the Yuan National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on October 22, citing Taipei Times (23/10).
However, a week later, a retired Taiwan military general revealed the opposite.
Launch Newsweek, Friday (10/30/2020), former Army Major General of the Republic of China (known as Taiwan) Hsiao Tien-liu claimed that the Taiwanese military would be short on manpower and weapons for war with China.
He then questioned in a recent interview: “Are they supposed to fight with brooms?” Hsiao doubted his country’s combat readiness.
At a committee meeting on October 22, Yen said President Tsai Ing-wen could mobilize 185,000 active troops and call around 260,000 proposals if the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces cross the Taiwan Strait.
However, Hsiao, who is the head of procurement at the Defense Ministry’s Armament Bureau, said it would be a “very difficult” task.
In an interview published on Friday (30/10) by a Chinese-language multinational site China Review News AgencyThe former soldier said that past experience shows only about 70 percent of the reservists show up when called in for education and training.
“Although the war mobilization order will be enforced, the military does not have comprehensive measures to mobilize in a state of emergency,” said Hsiao, according to Newsweek’s translation of the Chinese report.
“Managing 450,000 troops will be very difficult,” he said.
Another obstacle is the military’s history of lack of attention to the consolidation of weapons and equipment in storage, he said.
This can lead to an inability to provide an army with sufficient weapons, even if the armed forces can assemble the troops it needs.
“How can an army fight without adequate equipment? Do they have to fight with a broom?” said Hsiao reportedly BLACK.
The retired major general then urged the Taiwanese military to be “more vigilant about the crisis” and to make “basic preparations” needed to respond to future emergencies.
The ‘useless’ arms race
In another interview published by BLACK On Friday, Hsiao described America’s recent arms purchases “an endless money hole.”
Tsai’s government has reached nine arms deals with the Trump administration since he was first elected to office in 2016.
The deal consumes a record amount of Taiwan’s military budget for defense weapons.
Hsiao called the arms race with Beijing “pointless” because of the PLA’s enormous military expenditure.
“Taiwan will never close this military loophole, no matter how much money it spends,” he told the news site.
Signs of war
Aided by anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States and support from President Trump’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo, Tsai and his Democratic Progressive Party have sought to strengthen ties with allies such as the US and more recently India.
Continuing US arms sales to Taipei have angered Chinese leaders.
This led China to voice threats through official and informal means.
This has brought military tensions in the region to an all-time high since Taiwan’s missile crisis in the mid-1990s.
Lee Tien-tuo, a retired military colonel and former intelligence officer at Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, told China Review News Agency Friday that the Chinese invasion will be preceded by two actions.
Beijing will first release a list of “Taiwan separatist” war criminals to select specific individuals, Lee hypothesized.
China will then end the current Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation, signed in 2010, as a way of revealing the total damage to its relationship with Taiwan.
This article has been published on Intisari.ID with the title: ‘Are They Supposed to Fight with Brooms?’ Trying to Strengthen His Military to Fight China, Former Taiwanese General Reveals Taiwan’s Army Lacking Weapons
(Tatik Ariyani)
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