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Monday, January 28, 2013

Taiwan needs new submarines

Hai Lung (Zwaardvis) class submarine |President Ma Ying-jeou said Monday that Taiwan badly needs a new generation of submarines to beef up its naval fleet.

"Our existing submarines are all very old and need renewal," Ma said while meeting with a United States congressional delegation headed by Representative Ed Royce (R-Calif.), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Ma noted that Royce paid a visit to a naval base in southern Taiwan Sunday and boarded the Guppy-class submarine "Sea Lion."

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