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According to Taiwan's "China Times" reported on the 12th, the US Trump and Biden administrations' arms sales to Taiwan cases are more intensive than in the past, and the amount has repeatedly reached a new high, and Taiwan's defense department has clearly purchased "four noes" for the US military in the Taiwan legislature on the 11th, including not buying a second long-range early warning radar, not buying the "Apache" helicopter gunship, not buying a retired US warship, and not buying a "Black Hawk" helicopter. In this regard, some netizens on the island satirized that the Taiwan military's move was "a conscience discovery, or an opening of the door?" Some netizens sighed, "Taiwan is about to be hollowed out by the United States."
Screenshot of Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" report
According to reports, since former US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen visited Taiwan in early March this year, there have been rumors that the United States wants Taiwan to purchase a second long-range early warning radar, and Kuomintang "legislator" Liao Wanru questioned the matter on the 11th.
According to the report, DPP "legislator" Tsai Ti asked that the Taiwan Air Force plans to convert the UH-60M "Black Hawk" helicopter into a new type of nighttime search and rescue equipment. Huang Zhiwei, chief of staff of the Taiwan Air Force, said that the price of both cases was too high, whether it was structural modification (transformation) or the purchase of new aircraft, so both cases were abandoned.
Taiwan military "Black Hawk" helicopter (data map). Picture from Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
Huang Zhiwei explained that the Taiwan Air Force originally planned to transform the existing five UH-60M "Black Hawk" helicopters to enable them to have night search (night reconnaissance) capabilities, and the budget was about 1.9 billion yuan, but the US side quoted 4.3 billion yuan and purchased new aircraft to 18 billion yuan.
According to the report, according to the report on the budget thawing project sent by Taiwan's defense department to Taiwan's legislature, it is mentioned that "the follow-up will cooperate with the installation schedule of new equipment (AH-64E "Apache" helicopter gunships) and then build a new storage and storage shed factory to meet actual needs." Taiwan's "China Times" said that this report was interpreted by the outside world as a new purchase of "Apache" helicopters.
Taiwan military "Apache" helicopter gunship (data map). Picture from Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
However, in response to Tsai's inquiry, Chief of Staff Zhang Yuanxun of the Taiwan Army said that there is currently no such case. Bai Honghui, deputy head of Taiwan's defense department, stressed that there is no need to buy new helicopters, but only to build a shed factory, and there is no need to buy "Apache."
In addition, Kuomintang "legislator" Chen Yixin also questioned that more than 20 US ships such as littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will be retired this year.
Li Shiqiang, "director of the War Regulation Department" of Taiwan's defense department, said: "The fact that the United States has retired these ships means that the maintenance costs cannot even be maintained by the US military. In other words, the Taiwan military will not purchase recently retired US ships, including littoral combat ships.
Regarding the "four noes" statement put forward by the Taiwan military above, some netizens on the island said, "The plate (Taiwanese refers to people who are good bullies and good deceivers) will buy them." The money saved to do infrastructure to maintain people's livelihood needs is the right way" "Taiwan is about to be hollowed out by the United States" "Is it a conscience discovery, or an open trick? ”。
But some netizens questioned: "If you want to earn the above, can you say no?" Haha" "Block the way of people's money" "Don't pretend, the interests of Dr. Hollow (referring to Tsai Ing-wen) are in your way" ↓
More netizens believe that "the DPP cannot resist, and after the election at the end of the year, these military purchases will appear in the budget book again." ↓
Some netizens bluntly rebuked, "The DPP cooperates with the United States to kill Taiwan and let the battlefield happen in Taiwan, and whatever it buys or does not buy is to kill Taiwan." ↓