Taiwan Ministry of National Defense

Beijing Tries to Capitalize on Taiwan’s Controversial Rocket Alert

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China’s Word Game: A New Narrative of the “One China Principle”

On January 9, just days before the election, Taiwanese received an unusual surprise. At 3:04 p.m. local time, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) issued a warning about the flyover of a rocket carrying a newly launched People’s Republic of China (PRC) satellite. The alert went out to every person’s cell phone. It was the … Read more

Taiwan Should Follow the Philippines’ Model for Revealing China’s Gray Zone Tactics

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China Flies 103 Military Planes Toward Taiwan

Advertisement In August-September 2020, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) began releasing daily reports in Chinese and English of incursions by Chinese military aircraft into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ). The objective was to publicize the latest gray zone tactic in Beijing’s multifaceted coercive toolkit against Taipei. The reporting started in large part due … Read more