The United States sells the Taiwan mine system to cause huge controversy! Zhao Shaokang: Do you want to put one in Tsai Ing-wen's office?
2023-01-17
The State Department of the United States recently announced a total of 180 million US dollars for the sale of "volcanic" mine-laying systems to Taiwan, which will take effect this month after the process of informing the Congress. The arms sale case has caused great controversy in the island. According to the report of Taiwan United News Network on the 16th, on December 28, 2022, the Security and Cooperation Administration (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense announced that the US State Department had approved an arms purchase case for selling M136 "volcano" mine system to Taiwan. The Taiwan military and the DPP authorities have made great efforts to "wash" the arms sales. Taiwan's "Army Command" said on the 16th that the "Volcano" minefield system can effectively counter the PLA's amphibious rapid landing, and has the characteristics of "timed self-destruction", "magnetic induction detonation", "minefield marking" and "easy identification and clearance", which is different from the traditional mines buried on the ground and can avoid the accidental touch of soldiers and people. The Taiwan military also claimed that some people "misinterpreted" and spread "rumors" such as "forced procurement by the United States, violation of the Ottawa Convention, and the whole Taiwan will be covered with mines". Su Ziyun, a Taiwanese military scholar, also argued that the "volcano" mine-laying system is a new generation of war vehicle defense mines, and humanitarian issues have been considered in the design; At the legal level, the Ottawa Convention aims to prohibit signatories from using anti-personnel mines, but anti-war vehicles and vehicle mines are not prohibited, so there will be no violation of the Convention. On the same day, Zhao Tianlin, the "legislator" of the Democratic Progressive Party, claimed that the relevant mine system was advanced and could carry out three-stage self-destruction. Wang Dingyu, the "legislator" of the Democratic Progressive Party, also said that the opposition of certain media and political figures might be to rule out Taiwan's ability to prevent the PLA from landing on the beach quickly. However, Taiwan media mentioned that the island had never been mined after the Second World War. From the "legislator" to the academic community, they urged that the case should be braked and refuted the statement of the DPP authorities. Zhao Shaokang, the chairman of "Zhongguang", issued a painful comment on Facebook, saying that the Tsai administration publicized that the system would automatically fail when the time came. "Do you want to put a self-destructed mine in front of her office and step on it every day?" He said that Tsai Ing-wen announced that the compulsory service period would be extended to one year on the same day, the United States announced that it would sell Taiwan's 180 million dollar "volcano" mine system, It is believed that "if war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, the United States has set the battlefield on the island of Taiwan". "If there is a street war in Taiwan, the possible casualties are unimaginable." Chen Yuzhen, the "legislator" of Jinmen, said on the 16th that it took 20 years for Jinmen to clear the mines. During the process, some experts were injured and killed because of accidental touch. "I firmly oppose mine laying, and Jinmen people will also oppose it.". According to the data, Taiwan promulgated and implemented the Anti-personnel Mines Control Regulations in 2006, prohibiting the development, production, use, stockpiling or transfer of any anti-personnel mines; However, with the consent of Taiwan's "Ministry of Defense", Taiwan still has room to reuse mines. The promoters behind the anti-mine regulations, including Li Xisheng, a citizen of Jinmen who lost one leg because of touching the mine, said excitedly about the above-mentioned arms sales, "I am very opposed, super opposed". He said that Jinmen was the front line in the early stage, and people were strictly prohibited from entering the minefield; Now there are people everywhere in Taiwan. If
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