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Taiwan's Defense report stresses the military gap of two sides

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Taiwan's 2011 national defense report revealed that China has the capacity to occupy offshore islands and blockade Taiwan. (File Photo/CFP)



Taiwan's "Ministry of National Defense" released the "National Defense Report" on July 19. Generally, it says People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of Chinese mainland could blockade Taiwan and seize its outlying islands by 2020.


The report said the PLA aimed to be able to launch a full-scale military attack against Taiwan by 2020 and it was developing the capabilities necessary to prevent foreign forces from intervening on Taiwan’s behalf.


Taiwan legislator Lin Yu-fang, the lawmaker of the ruling Kuomintang Party (KMT), said on Tuesday that Chinese mainland has developed an anti-ship missile, the DF-21D, designed to destroy aircraft carriers and began limited production of it in 2010.


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Photo taken on July 19, 2011 shows a Knox-class frigate of Taiwanese navy anchors in the island’s northern Keelung harbour. Taiwan’s defence ministry unveiled its 2011 national defence report, warning that China’s military threat against Taiwan is bigger than ever.


The report said “the gap in national defense budgets between both sides is widening, with mainland's military budget 21 times that of Taiwan’s, while China's military spending is now second only to the US globally.”


The report said Chinese mainland’s declared defense budget last year was US$77 billion, dwarfing Taiwan’s US$9 billion military budget. However, the actual Chinese military budget might have exceeded US$200 billion, which would provide Beijing with a dollar-for-dollar advantage of more than 20-to-one, it said.



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The anti-ship missile, the DF-21D of PLA, also called as the "killer of aircraft carrier."


The report said that in the 20 years to 2009, China’s military spending had maintained double-digit growth nearly every year, with total spending ranking first in Asia, threatening other countries in the region.


Chinese mainland’s official military spending this year is budgeted at US$93 billion, the report said, citing official Chinese statistics. The PLA has more than 2.3 million personnel, against 270,000 in Taiwan, or a -ratio of nine to one, it said.


The report said Chinese mainland had deployed a small number of Dong-Feng 21D “carrier killer” ballistic missiles last year, which could threaten aircraft carriers, the main platform the US would likely use if it intervened in any future conflict in the Taiwan Strait.


Chinese mainland has not altered its military deployment in regions across the strait from Taiwan, although it shifted military drills from northern to southern Taiwan, and improved the training of its military for amphibious war against Taiwan, Lin said.


Ties between Taiwan and Chinese mainland have been improving since 2008. Nevertheless, Beijing assigned new weapons systems to its military in the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, just across the strait, improving their ability to hit targets at long distances from their bases, Lin explained.


At the same time, Chinese mainland gave its new generation of jet fighters rotating assignments to bases in Guangdong and Fujian, and upgraded both bases' long-distance air defense missiles in addition to commissioning new, ground-based anti-ship missiles and missile boats.


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J-10 fighter jet of PLA Air Force


Mainland ground forces under the Nanjing Command and Guangdong Command are equipped with multiple rocket launchers and amphibious attack vehicles with an apparent aim of mitigating the effects of defense fire from Taiwan's frontline islands, and capturing them in a hypothetical war.


Meanwhile mainland's Second Artillery Corps has already developed different warheads for different targets, in addition to anti-radiation missiles capable of destroying ground-based command and control centers and radar systems, which pose a threat to Taiwan's defense operations.


The lawmaker said the defense ministry concluded in its report that Chinese mainland was capable of projecting power beyond the first Pacific island chain consisting of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. He cited the growing fleet of mainland's third generation jet fighters, which are equipped with air-launched cruise missiles and can be refueled in air, giving China air superiority over the western Pacific.
(Taipei Times/Want China Times)
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