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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Kao backs putting missiles on Taiping

Tien Chin IMinister of National Defense Kao Hua-chu yesterday said his ministry supported a plan to deploy missiles on Taiping Island in the South China Sea.

Kao made the remarks at the legislature’s Diplomacy and National Defense Committee, where Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Yu-fang called for the strengthening of the military presence on the island.

Coast Guard Administration personnel have been stationed on Taiping since the marines pulled out in 1999, but legislators have asked the government to expand defense capabilities there.

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