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Taiwan, “Department of Defense,” published cross military strength

global news network on July 20, Taiwan’s “Defense” 19 held a press conference to announce 2011 “national defense” report points out, the mainland’s military Taiwan is 10 times, Taiwan’s defense budget is 21 times. Taiwan’s “Defense Ministry”, said Andrew Yang, Vice Minister: “We are living in very challenging environment, the past two years under the guidance of government policy, there are some changes in cross-strait relations, although we are now actively engaged in cross-strait peace and stability in the interaction, But our ‘defense’ with safety, in the ‘national army’ under the guidance, we will never relax. “

Taiwan today, according to news reports, the report describes, the Chinese mainland’s military preparedness in 2020 with “Taiwan large-scale operations” and the “war against foreign military intervention’s ability to Taiwan” as the goal. 2020, China-made aircraft carrier and in addition to the gradual completion of a new generation of stealth fighter deployment, but also will be built in the year to complete “Compass” navigation satellite system, GPS can get rid of long-term reliance on the U.S., but also to effectively enhance its long-distance precision weapons against accuracy.

report said more troops cross the mainland at present total strength of about 230 million people, Taiwan’s total force of 27 million people, the mainland is Taiwan’s forces 10 times. Weapons and ballistic missile submarines in the mainland with absolute advantage.

analysis report: “the gap between the two sides growing defense budget, such as hiding the budget together, the Chinese military spending after the United States the world’s second largest military spender,” “cross the defense budget more double up the gap will reach twenty. ” On the 2010 defense budget, is $ 77 billion in mainland China, Taiwan $ 9.0 billion, a difference of 9 times.

report that, although the cross-strait relations have been easing, but the mainland “is still the southeast coast of Taiwan to deploy more than 1,000 missiles”, and home building dense air attack ship and shore positions, continued to dress with distance and precision attack aircraft with stealth missile boats.

mainland air force generation fighters have switched long-range air defense missiles; navy deployment in remote areas of Fujian and Guangdong shore ship missiles and a new set of attack missile boats. Also give priority to the army in Nanjing and Guangzhou Military Region, fitted out a new long-range multi-barrel rocket system pressure Taiwan’s offshore islands to enhance the fire and amphibious landing capability.

report also said that mainland China’s Second Artillery Corps already has a variety of different types of attacks target warhead, the Air Force air-launched anti-radiation missile and UAV will have to attack ground command, control, radar systems, the ability to increase the plight of my defense as a , showing that the overall combat power has been with Continental blockade of Taiwan and seize the outside (away from) the ability of the island. Second Artillery Corps’ attack boat can be fitted into the process to deploy ballistic missiles (DF-21D missile), research and development for the continent to combat aircraft weapon, was a small amount of production deployment in 2010, an increase of U.S. military forces in the region difficult. ”

report stressed that Taiwan will build “a small but fine, small but powerful, small and clever” and “defense” force, and “innovation and asymmetric” thinking to promote the army to prepare to play “in order to Small is Big “effect, so that the mainland” in estimating the costs of war after a war not delicately. ”