海軍重啟「新一代飛彈巡防艦」 6000噸以上+AN/SPY-7主動相列雷達 Taiwanese Navy to pursue 6000 ton+ Next Generation AEGIS Frigates – 自由時報 Liberty Times. Geostrategery and Taiwan Republic 台灣国 classrooms. For an island democratic nation facing a gigantic authoritarian continental enemy, one would think Taiwan Republic’s navy would be a top priority. History and politics can distort such commonsensical approaches. Taiwan’s navy is a legacy brought to Taiwan by the China KMT when it lost the latest Chinese Civil War in 1949. The China KMT’s dictator Chiang Kai-shek was an army man, and the navy never had priority. Even during the democracy era, Taiwan has yet to decolonize its Chinese-imposed mentality as a continental civilization and embrace its maritime reality. This goes a long way in explaining how it is possible for an island nation, in 2024, to be the only nation in a neighborhood made super dangerous by the Chinese, to not have AEGIS-VLS in its naval forces.
Other major contributors to this mess. Decades of wrong and dangerous US policy – even now there are policy mandarins in DC pretending that American policy regarding this region is a “double deterrence” – i.e., to prevent both sides of the Taiwan Strait from escalating tensions, as if both sides are equally dangerous. Ignoring the reality that since 1979 the US and the rest of the Free World have funneled trillions in cash and technological know-how to the Chinese communists, creating a vast military imbalance in the region that makes this equivalency dangerously mistaken. During the 1990s Taiwan sought submarines and AEGIS/VLS Arleigh Burke destroyers from the US – and the US (as it has done in Ukraine) managed its way ass-backward into this mess.
Other problems have been domestic. The dark eight years of surrender monkey Ma certainly plays a role. More so decades of China KMT military dictatorship have created a vacuum of civilian national security leaders who are also pro-democracy. Taiwan’s military CSIST, for example, has claimed it can duplicate AEGIS/VLS technology for decades without delivering tangible results – lacking competent and powerful civilian arbitration, this impasse dragged on. For a smaller nation with limited research and development resources, should the CSIST insist on trying to develop so many items for all branches of the Taiwanese military? That is another national security policy worth debating among Taiwan’s democratically elected civilian leaders.
And a final, decades-long problem stemming from the cult-like “strategic ambiguity” policy of the US. While some American think tankers complain about Taiwan not doing enough and not spending enough on its own defense, they almost always conveniently leave out the deep-seated problem created by American ambiguity. If Taiwan knows US and allied forces will cover long-range strategic strikes against China during the war, then it makes sense for DC to insist Taiwan focus its limited resources on their beloved porcupine defense. If America is ambivalent – then could any responsible Taiwanese leader pursue a porcupine policy (Stingers and Javelins), look at what’s happened to Ukraine (US and NATO policy thus far being – the aggressor Russia can pummel any part of Ukraine and commit war crimes; yet Ukraine cannot be allowed to pummel Russian territory)? My point is: in a world where so-called realists are actually looking at this world for real, then we can dispense with the illusion that the Chinese imperialists can be reasoned with. The only way to deter a Chinese invasion is to make it abundantly clear to the Chinese that starting a war will be the end of their dictatorship. With that clarity, then it would make sense for Taiwan to leave the high seas to larger regional and global powers, give up on the expensive AEGIS/VLS warships, and focus on smaller coastal crafts and submarines. These are policy choices reasonable people can argue and disagree over. They are impossible to debate without clarity from all parties – especially a global power as important as the United States.
【小神盾艦】海軍啟動新一代飛彈巡防艦計劃 赴美評估採購AN/SPY-7相列雷達
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