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AsiaPac · 12 mins ago
Readiness not provocation, senior security official says
Who’s MAKING TROUBLE: A senior national security official posited that perhaps the country crossing daily into airspace it was not welcome in was more of an issue By Ben Blanchard / Reuters Taiwan’s preparations to deal with a possible Chinese attack are not a provocation, and Taiwanese need to take the threat seriously and prepare, National Security Council Deputy Secretary-General Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) said yesterday.Taiwan’s government, which rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, has been increasing military spending and regularly holding civil defence drills under what President William Lai (賴清德) refers to as whole-of-society resilience efforts.Speaking at a forum in Taipei, Lin, who oversees the resilience program, said China’s massive defense spending and its ongoing military pressure in
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