Taiwanese foreign minister Lin reiterates Taiwan’s commitment to self-reliance in defence.
Taiwan must rely on itself for defence and is likely to keep increasing spending and modernising its military given the threat it faces from China , Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said, responding to criticism from Donald Trump.
But Taiwan has no formal defence pact with the United States, as Asian neighbours Japan and South Korea do since Washington terminated a previous treaty with Taipei in 1979 when it switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing. "In fact on national defence, we must rely on ourselves - this is the precondition. Since the start of Taiwan's democratisation over the past 30 years, we have stood alone against China's threat."
Successive US administrations have pushed Taiwan to modernise its military to become a"porcupine" that is hard for China to attack, advocating the sale of inexpensive, mobile, and survivable – or"asymmetric" – weapons that could outlast any initial assault by China's larger military.
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