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Jura said:

cross-posting from F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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Taiwan renews interest in F-35 to counter Chinese first strike

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Taiwan is still interested in buying F-35 fighters from the US because the model matches the air force’s requirements, Minster of National Defense Yen Teh-fa (嚴德發) told a legislative committee yesterday.

The F-35B’s short takeoff and vertical-landing capabilities definitely meet the needs of the air force, Yen told lawmakers in his first question-and-answer session as minister during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.

However, the Ministry of National Defense has not made an official request to the US to purchase the aircraft and he could not say how many it wants to buy, he said.

Yen, a former secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC), reiterated a plan the ministry first announced in late 2011.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of North American Affairs Director-General Remus Chen (陳立國) told a news briefing that the government has made clear its intention to seek weaponry from the US to meet its air defense needs.

“Hopefully, those needs can be fulfilled soon,” he said.

Asked to comment on Chen’s remarks, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) spokeswoman Sonia Urbom said in an e-mail that the US remains fully committed to fulfilling its responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), but cannot comment on pending or potential arms sales.

“In accordance with the TRA, we will continue to make available to Taiwan defense articles and services necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability,” she said. “We continue to review Taiwan’s defensive needs on an ongoing basis and will consult with Congress as required.”

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was quoted as saying in May last year that her administration had not dismissed the possibility of obtaining F-35 fighters.

“We don’t rule out any items that would be meaningful to our defense and our defense strategy, and the F-35 is one such item,” Tsai told Reuters in an interview.

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Skywatcher said:

The AV-8s have STVOL, but they probably wouldn't fare too well in air to air combat.

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Taiwan has sent ships and aircraft to shadow a Chinese aircraft carrier group through the narrow Taiwan Strait, its defense ministry said on Wednesday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his strongest warning against Taiwan separatism to date.

China claims Taiwan as its sacred territory and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province, which Xi said on Tuesday would face the “punishment of history” for any attempt at separatism.

Taiwan’s defense ministry said the carrier group, led by China’s sole operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, entered the waterway late on Tuesday, but kept on its western side.

By midday on Wednesday it has left Taiwan’s air defense identification zone heading southwest, the ministry said, adding it looked like China was conducting drills.

Taiwan’s military sent ships and aircraft to shadow the carrier group the entire way, but spotted nothing out of the ordinary and people in Taiwan should not be concerned, it added.

China’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In January, the Liaoning sailed twice through the Taiwan Strait, in what China said was part of routine drills.

Taiwan says China has ramped up military exercises around the island in the past year or so. The island is one of China’s most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.

China’s hostility towards Taiwan has risen since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, a member of the island’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.

China suspects Tsai wants to push for formal independence, which would cross a red line for Communist Party leaders in Beijing, though Tsai has said she wants to maintain the status quo and is committed to ensuring peace.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Monday expressed anger at Taiwan Premier William Lai’s description of the island as a sovereign independent country, calling it a “serious provocation” and denying that Taiwan was, or could ever be, one.

China has also been infuriated by a law signed last week by U.S. President Donald Trump that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts, and vice versa.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alex Wong is in Taiwan this week, where he is set to speak at a business event in Taipei later on Wednesday with Tsai.

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1. Take coastal Southern China - Guangdong, Hainan
2. Move deeper inland and take western China
3. Capture Central Asia and Ural region

1. Take coastal Eastern China and establish Nanjing as ROC capital - Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong
2. Move deeper inland, take Northern China including Beijing (bypassing most of the central plains) and Mongolia
3. Capture Siberia

1. Take Tianjin and Liaoning, cut off Manchuria from the rest of China.
2. Move deeper inland, take Manchuria
3. Pincer movement in coordination with Allied forces in Far East Russia.

1. Bombard Moscow with hydrogen bombs
2. NATO/Allied forces take Western Russia
3. Manage Western Russia using UN forces

1. Allied forces capture entire Korean peninsula, Vladivostok, and Kuril Islands
2. Allied forces pincer movement in coordination with ROC forces to cut off Russian Far East

druid198405 said:

That's getting too political, saying Taiwan doesn't deserve to exist. The vast majority of Taiwanese do not want to be part of China, so I wouldn't say it's a waste. Please stick to the topic which is Taiwans military.

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SilentObserver said:

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Chiang Kai Shek's plan to retake the mainland. It appears to be part of a broader war in coordination with the Allied forces. ROC on Taiwan would attack coastal mainland China, retake Nanjing and set it as China's national capital.

South China front

1. Take coastal Southern China - Guangdong, Hainan
2. Move deeper inland and take western China
3. Capture Central Asia and Ural region

East China front

1. Take coastal Eastern China and establish Nanjing as ROC capital - Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong
2. Move deeper inland, take Northern China including Beijing (bypassing most of the central plains) and Mongolia
3. Capture Siberia

North East front

1. Take Tianjin and Liaoning, cut off Manchuria from the rest of China.
2. Move deeper inland, take Manchuria
3. Pincer movement in coordination with Allied forces in Far East Russia.

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Western Russia front

1. Bombard Moscow with hydrogen bombs
2. NATO/Allied forces take Western Russia
3. Manage Western Russia using UN forces

Far East front

1. Allied forces capture entire Korean peninsula, Vladivostok, and Kuril Islands
2. Allied forces pincer movement in coordination with ROC forces to cut off Russian Far East

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