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Updated Tuesday, April 7, 2009 9:32 am TWN, By David Young, The China Post Taiwan may build its own submarinesUnder the project, which was aborted five years ago, Taiwan would build eight conventional diesel-powered submarines, which President George W. Bush authorized as part of the U.S. arms sales in 2001. At least five top-level defense meetings have been held to evaluate the possibility that the eight underwater warships can be locally assembled, sources close to the National Security Council said yesterday. No unanimous agreement was reached, sources said. Final reports on the meetings, which offered a number of options but recommended construction of the submarines in Taiwan, are being prepared for President Ma's approval. Ma is likely to give the green light for the local construction to stimulate the economy and help reduce unemployment, sources revealed. It's not an easy job to resurrect Project Diving Dragon. First of all, Washington's nod is required. America's full support is needed to arm the submarines and make them operable, too. The previous Democratic Progressive Party administration took no action on the purchase of the eight submarines for years until 2004. When it finally proposed a special budget for the purchase, the Legislative Yuan under control of the then-opposition Kuomintang refused to act on it because an exorbitant NT$412.1 billion price tag was attached to the eight conventional submarines. James Soong, chairman of the People First Party, called the deal “a fool's arms purchase.” His party, together with the Kuomintang, formed a paper-thin majority in the Legislative Yuan. The United States has already phased out construction of conventional submarines and the Pentagon wanted Taiwan to buy them from a third country. Taiwan proposed Project Diving Dragon. Washington modified the sales in 2007, after Taiwan's submarine building project was turned down. The Ministry of National Defense has continued to phase in the purchase in small installments, which has yet to be concluded. Comments August 15, 2009 tambi99ca@ Reply To build a wall, it starts with one brick and then eventually a wall emerges. That is what the Taiwanese needs to do with the Sub program. Maybe they need to start small. Like a midget sub and then expand on that. Through time they will acquire the now how ho how to build a conventional diesel sub. The Taiwanese just have to have confidence and believe in themselves. September 16, 2009 apropos@ Why doesn't Taiwan buy used Los Angeles Class boats as they're replaced by the Virginia Class? October 8, 2009 homo@ What this article failed to say was the arms deal was blocked by the KMT and pan-blue controlled legislature for years...typical pro-chink, pan-blue type of article...trying to place the failures of the pro-chink KMT on the DPP... October 8, 2009 eddie@ homo@ wrote: hey homo@... in case you didn't know, the word "chink" is a racial slur referring to anyone with Chinese decent. If you want to say "China", just say "China". Don't sound like an ignorant fool.What this article failed to say was the arms deal was blocked by the KMT and pan-blue controlled legislature for years...typical pro-chink, pan-blue type of article...trying to place the failures of the pro-chink KMT on the DPP... October 9, 2009 elumpen@ Taiwanese drivers in an armed submarine. The Chinese had better watch out. And may God have mercy on our souls... October 9, 2009 josua@ homo@ wrote: It’s because the DPP jacked up the price tag of the submarine’s actual price. It’s what we call commission fee, under the table transaction fee and of course the famous GREEN color buck deposited in their own personal overseas secret bank account. That’s why the DPP was so obsessed with the GREEN COLOR.What this article failed to say was the arms deal was blocked by the KMT and pan-blue controlled legislature for years...typical pro-chink, pan-blue type of article...trying to place the failures of the pro-chink KMT on the DPP... October 9, 2009 johnny.bryan@ I don't support either KMT or DPP to purchase of military weapons because it is unnecessary. Why give our money to these arm suppliers (dealers) and to the ruling party through under the table transaction fee? October 12, 2009 alchou626@ eddie@ wrote: I'll drink to that!hey homo@... in case you didn't know, the word "chink" is a racial slur referring to anyone with Chinese decent. If you want to say "China", just say "China". Don't sound like an ignorant fool. October 13, 2009 bdinchitwn@ You’re suggesting that every single person involved in the weapons procurement process had knowledge that the weapons were overpriced and they were all involved in a huge conspiracy to allow the DPP to pocket the difference. Don’t you think that the KMT would have gone public with this knowledge if they knew? Of course they would have, but they didn't. So what does that mean? It means it didn't go down like that. the submarines were overpriced because the U.S. jacked up the price since they would have had to build the submarines from scratch and also because they're greedy SOBs who knew we could only buy from them. CSB is greedy, but so is everyone else in the world. That doesn't make what he did ok. But you should just be aware that not everything is blue good, green bad, or vice versa. October 14, 2009 paulanthonysamson@ Better to spend the money on improved infrastructure, housing, and peaceful stuff. Eight subs won’t stop the commies anyway, so it’s a waste of money. October 14, 2009 kbigan.jerry@ homo@ wrote: You have a big mouth. Chinks is a derogatory word for us Chinese. If you are Chinese yourself you SOB. If you are not then you're a [expletive deleted] racist skinhead. Get out of the Republic of China...What this article failed to say was the arms deal was blocked by the KMT and pan-blue controlled legislature for years...typical pro-chink, pan-blue type of article...trying to place the failures of the pro-chink KMT on the DPP... |
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