{"id":7838,"date":"2026-01-15T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:11:13","slug":"taiwan-media-the-purchase-case-of-taiwans-defense-department-has-once-again-caused-controversy-the-blue-camp-peoples-agency-has-revealed-that-tobacco-alcohol-and-food-vendors-have-also-switche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7838","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Media: the purchase case of Taiwan&#8217;s Defense Department has once again caused controversy. The blue-camp People&#8217;s agency has revealed that tobacco, alcohol, and food vendors have also switched to selling bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on Taiwan&#8217;s China Times news website on January 15, KMT public opinion representative Ma Wenjun has been hotly pursuing the bullet purchase case of Taiwan&#8217;s Defense Department in recent days. She made another disclosure on the 15th, the\u201cBureau of Armaments\u201d tender for the purchase of 9 mm pistol bullets was worth as much as NT $45.5 million. The winning company was originally engaged in\u201cRetail of tobacco, alcohol and hardware,\u201d but changed its business items last June, after increasing the export and import of guns and ammunition, and the maintenance of guns, it won the bid. According to the company&#8217;s registered address, she said, it was a home with a courtyard, and satirized\u201cAnother big hidden arms dealer.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7839\" title=\"d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1.png\" alt=\"d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1.png 799w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d3de74a2520192a0f82fd89e7478986bu1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><br \/>\nMa Wenjun, file photo: Taiwan Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Reported that Ma Wenjun said in a Facebook post on the 15th that Taiwan&#8217;s\u201cBureau of Armaments\u201d had awarded the tender for the bullet purchase case at the end of last year, 5.56 mm rifle steel cartridge, 5.56 mm rifle blank cartridge, 7.62 mm machine gun blank cartridge, 9 mm pistol ammunition. One 9 mm pistol bullets purchased 350 million rounds, the amount of about 4550 million yuan, the case won by WOYA International Co. , Ltd. . Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Ma Wenjun said that Haya International Co. , Ltd. was established in 2020. Previously, it mainly engaged in retail and wholesale of tobacco, alcohol, food and hardware. According to the website of Taiwan&#8217;s competent economic authorities, such as the business registration website, in June of last year, the company changed its business items, increasing the export and import of guns and ammunition, and the maintenance of guns. Within six months, it tendered for the ammunition purchase case of the\u201cBureau of Armaments.\u201d It won a tender of about NT $45.5 million for 9 mm pistol bullets. The company registered in Taichung City, Beitun District, is a family with a courtyard house, \u201cDid not expect to be a hidden big arms dealer.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is like a copy of last year&#8217;s &#8216;RDX Haishougeng&#8217; explosive case,\u201d Ma Wenjun said. Tainan Fomalhaut Decoration Company had no military background or handling experience, so it took down the highly confidential\u201cRDX Haishougeng\u201d explosive case, the two also have another thing in common. RDX raw materials and bullets are military products that the Taiwanese army could have produced in sufficient quantities on its production line. However, in the recent sudden shift to outsourcing procurement, several companies happened to change their business projects in a short period of time, bid and win.<\/p>\n<p>Ma Wenjun criticized that this situation happens again and again, and he didn&#8217;t know how many hidden mirror people were hiding behind these companies, eating these bids through their connections, and making a lot of money from defense budgets. She urged the Ministry of Defence to stop deluding itself and investigate thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>According to previous reports, the island recently broke out several\u201cSmall companies to obtain large contracts\u201d of the controversial procurement case. After leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Ching-teh, made a big move recently to announce that he would promote a military special budget procurement plan with a total amount of 1.25 trillion Taiwan dollars, KMT public opinion representative Wang Hong-wei revealed that, taiwan&#8217;s\u201cDefense Department\u201d won a tender for the purchase of nearly NT $600 million worth of explosives from a decoration company, and more than NT $800 million worth of open contracts will follow. Later, the island has been found that some of the companies have won the tender for arms, tea companies, shoe factories, etc. , were questioned collusion between officials and businessmen. Ku Li-hsiung, the head of Taiwan&#8217;s defence ministry, declared that\u201cTaiwan does not have homemade production capacity\u201d, but it was revealed that the military not only completed the production line for explosives more than 40 years ago, but has also maintained production capacity in recent years. United News Network ridiculed that interior decoration companies in the absence of experience in the case of high explosives agents, can be called another\u201cGreen Miracle.\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to a report on Taiwan&#8217;s China Times news website on January 15, KMT public opinion representative Ma Wenjun has been hotly pursuing the bullet purchase case of Taiwan&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,265],"tags":[3583,4160,4158,4159],"views":136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}