After months of gaming, Taiwan’s“Legislative yuan” passed the“Special Regulations on arms purchase” in its third reading on the afternoon of the 8th, arousing great concern in the island.
Taiwan’s United News Network said on the 8th that after the vote, Taiwan’s“Legislative Yuan” passed the version of the amendment motion proposed by the Blue and White Party group on the same day, the items to be purchased include the self-propelled M109A7 gun, the seahorse multiple rocket launcher system, the anti-armor UAV missile system, the javelin anti-tank missile, and the TOW 2B anti-tank missile, the budget is capped at NT $300 billion. In addition, the items that the U.S. government has agreed to sell within one year after the implementation of the“Special Regulations on arms procurement” include soft and hard kill hybrid counter drone systems, each type of anti-missile and air defense missiles, low-altitude air defense missiles and anti-armor missile combat readiness supplement, the upper limit of 480 billion yuan. In other words, the total amount of arms purchases for the blue and white caucus version is capped at 780 billion yuan.
DPP authorities last year proposed an 8-year total of 1.25 trillion yuan of additional defense budget, strong opposition in the island. On the 6th of this month, Taiwan’s“Legislative Yuan president” Han kuo-yu called for consultations between the government and the opposition for the fourth time regarding the arms purchase special bill, but still could not reach a consensus. Democratic Progressive Party“Legislator” Wu Siyao said on the 8th that after 162 days of delay, the blue and white teamed up to offer a 62% discount on arms purchases, “This is ‘one and four look at’ , to the mainland lose sincerity, pressure pro-n faction, arms purchase scale broken arms and legs, defense capabilities bound hands and feet.”.
Taiwan’s China Times News Network editorial said, since Lai Qingde proposed 1.25 trillion yuan defense budget, the arms purchase bill has become the focus of offensive and defensive. The US side, from members of Congress to Gu Liyan, director of the“American Association in Taiwan,” are all exerting pressure, while the Democratic Progressive Party authorities are excessively politicizing the defense issue, it is even reduced to“Supporting the 1.25 trillion Yuan Arms Purchase is loving Taiwan” and“Demanding prudential supervision is anti-defense”, which is not only rude, but also unreasonable. The article said that the defense budget has never been“The more money the safer,” and that the arms purchase figures are not a political contest to show loyalty to the United States.
Huang Qiyuan, founding chairman of Taiwan’s M & A and Private Equity Association, wrote in an article that the“Taiwan-us reciprocal trade agreement” promised that US peanuts would be imported with zero tariffs and exemptions from special defense measures, raising concerns about“Exterminating farmers”. But for the DPP, integration into the US technology supply chain is all that matters, and agriculture is a relatively minor issue. The article asked, “Is it really necessary to replace the military budget with social welfare? Do the weapons really work? Why write a blank check in the first place, and what if the U.S. delays delivery? More importantly, why didn’t the DPP initiate negotiations with the other side? Why ignore the olive branch of China’s ten-point policy towards Taiwan?”
Responding to the us-taiwan arms purchase issue, Chen Binhua, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said recently that we resolutely oppose any form of military contacts between the US and the Taiwan region of China. The willingness of the DPP authorities to be the“Cash machine” of the U.S. military ? industrial complex for the sake of“Taiwan independence” political self-interest and to beg for the unreliable protection of external forces will only put Taiwan in an even more dangerous situation, and bring grave disaster to our compatriots in Taiwan. Warn the DPP authorities that the reunification of the Motherland is unstoppable, no matter how many weapons to buy, are praying mantis as a chariot, can not change the“Taiwan independence” is bound to fail in the end.