Taiwan to produce 50 missiles to target China

[illusion8]

Sydney, March 18:
Taiwan is set to produce 50 medium-range missiles next year that will target military bases in southeast China, according to a media report.

Former defence minister Michael Tsai revealed in a recently published book that the island successfully created medium-range guided missiles that could be used against rival China back in 2008, reports the Herald Sun.

The report in the Taipei-based China Times said that the "Yun Feng" (Cloud Peak) missile has been developed by the state-run Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology and each has a range of over 1,000 kilometres.

The missiles will be deployed in the mountains in central Taiwan from next year to aim at military targets, including airports and missile bases, along China's southeastern coast, the report said.

Taiwan has been researching missiles of this type to counter threats from China after it fired missiles near the island in 1996, the report added. It said that the " Yun Feng" project was developed with the help of an unidentified European country.

The defence ministry has condemned Tsai's revelations, saying they could endanger national security.

Taiwanese experts estimate China's People's Liberation Army currently has more than 1,600 missiles aimed at the island.

Tensions with China have eased since Ma Ying-jeou became Taiwan's president in 2008 on a Beijing-friendly platform. However, China still refuses to renounce the possible use of force against the island in its long-stated goal of re-taking Taiwan, which has ruled itself since the end of a civil war in 1949.

Taiwan to produce 50 missiles to target China | Siasat

 

[djsjs]

LOL,some facts may help you know the real situation.
1 . about 1/10 Taiwanese live in mainland
2 . more than 5 million Taiwanese came to mainland in 2012,about 1/4 of total Taiwan population
3 . none of us from both side want to start a civil war

 

[armchairPrivate]

In ten, 20 years, Taiwan will become SAR Taiwan, China, just like SAR Hong Kong, China.

 

[illusion8]

In ten, 20 years, Taiwan will become SAR Taiwan, China, just like SAR Hong Kong, China.

In light of the Falkland Islands’ referendum result, South China Morning Post, a local English language newspaper, posted a poll on its website on 12th March 2013 around 13.00, asking the Hong Kongers whether they’d vote to return to a British overseas territory, given the option. The number is similar to the Falkland Islanders’ – an overwhelmingly “YES” – 90% as of 15.31 on 13th March 2013 (just over 24 hours).

Hong Kongers Vote to Return to a British Overseas Territory | Free Hong Kong

 

[armchairPrivate]

^^ SCMP is a China hating newspaper run by the British Colonial dicks still mourning over the loss of HK to China. As to the polls, it is credible. Any tom, dick and harry can run a poll.

To quote the poll suggests to me you know very little about Hong Kong or Chinese affairs.

 

[Ayush]

the mainland missiles.

 

[AHMED85]

China is second super power with strong treaty friends so how 50 are not sufficient...

 

[illusion8]

China is second super power with strong treaty friends so how 50 are not sufficient...

50 against China's 1600 missiles that are targeted towards Taiwan

 

[AHMED85]

50 against China's 1600 missiles that are targeted towards Taiwan

1600 kuch kam nehai hon gee...

 

[illusion8]

1600 kuch kam nehai hon gee...

Taiwan ka size dekha hai kya -

1600 missile kuch zyaada ho gaye.

 

[Sarjen]

^^ SCMP is a China hating newspaper run by the British Colonial dicks still mourning over the loss of HK to China. As to the polls, it is credible. Any tom, dick and harry can run a poll.To quote the poll suggests to me you know very little about Hong Kong or Chinese affairs.

hey just a doubt, I hear till 90s Hong was under British colony, why didn't China take back but before that went onto fight with other countries over its disputes when Hong Kong was clearly it's territory

 

[djsjs]

hey just a doubt, I hear till 90s Hong was under British colony, why didn't China take back but before that went onto fight with other countries over its disputes when Hong Kong was clearly it's territory

based on the treaty signed in 1898,xinjie(the largest part of Hongkong) rent for 99 years

 

[tranquilium]

hey just a doubt, I hear till 90s Hong was under British colony, why didn't China take back but before that went onto fight with other countries over its disputes when Hong Kong was clearly it's territory

It is not a colony per se. Like djsjs said, it was rented for 99 years. While the deal is signed by Qing Dynasty, there were several reasons that why PRC didn't abolish it like some of the other treaties.

First of all, the bottom line. While PRC made territorial integrity a top priority when it was founded, Korean war provided that UK is not a military threat to China and since Hong Kong will be returned to Chinese control after the rent period is up, there was room to consider the advantages to let Hong Kong stays that way a while longer.
There are a few benefits for Hong Kong's status from 1949 to 1997:
After the Korean war, US pursued a policy of aggressive containment of China (much stronger than today). As a result, USSR becomes China's main trade partner and source of modern technology, on the surface anyway. It is easy to understand that when you only have one supplier, that supplier is free to jack up price however high as he wish. USSR policies was to integrate the economy of all communist countries with USSR at its core. For example, North Korean is typical communist nation guided by these policies. NK used to export food and light industrial products to USSR and in return receive fuel and heavy industrial products vital to its economy. It worked quite well for a few decades. Many young people may not know that NK used to have better standard of living than both China and South Korea up to the 80s and better than Japan up to 70s. The downside. of course, is that you become totally dependent on USSR. While Vietnam and NK did not have much option but to follow USSR, China wanted nothing to do with it. As a result, China needed connections and channels to the west and Hong Kong was perfect. In fact, the British has been smuggling things past the sanctions to China before the Korean war even ended. (UK is the first western power to recognize PRC). The French followed a few years after that. In those years, Hong Kong served both as diplomatic channels as well as trade connections between China and the West.
Hong Kong was also extremely useful as monetary exchange in earlier decades of PRC. In international transactions, unless you have monetary exchange setup already with the other nation, typically you can't simply use your currency to pursue goods in the other country. In these situations, a third party currency (very often US dollar) is needed. Hong Kong is very important in this regards because it was the BIGGEST underground currency exchange market in the entire Asia. In Hong Kong, currencies from all over the world like USSR ruble, US dollar, Chinese RMB, British pound, French franc and Deutsche Mark are changed despite these nations are divided by trade barrier during the cold war. With such a financial center at the door step, PRC was able to bypass quite a few cold war restrictions and obtain goods vital for the country.
In fact, why did China went through all the effort to save Hong Kong in the 97 southeast Asia financial crisis? By 97, China has already opened up to the world and while it is not nearly as developed as today, there are still financial centers that rivals Hong Kong (Shanghai, for example). Why did China vow to battle US to the bitter end over Hong Kong, even threatening to use the foreign currency reserve to do it? The answer is that HK's function as underground currency exchange was still valuable. Remember, it is only in the recent few years that China began to setup direct currency exchange with major nations of the world and that road is far from smooth (for example, right after talk on direct currency exchange with Japan, the Diaoyu island conflict occurred). Unless RMB manages to displace US dollar as international trade medium, HK will continue to serve a vital role.

 

[A.Rafay]

50 only?? Looks like needle in a haystack!

 

[Genesis]

I'm not seeing the Taiwan advantage of independence. It can't have foreign policy. Even if it could who would listen to a small island or anybody not part of BRICS or isn't America or EU and Japan. I mean EU the entity not single European countries, that ship has sailed.

Mainland has access to the world's resources, is getting richer by the second. Is a far bigger market no matter how you look at it.

Perhaps most importantly, they are Han Chinese that just went to Taiwan due to politics. Communism no longer exist in China as Nationalists no longer operate in Taiwan.

The Taiwan president is like a mayor in China. Even if a person has political ambitions, China is the place to do it.