Pentagon official urges Taiwan to boost defence spending in face of possible attack by mainland
2018-10-31 09:47:37 source：South China Morning Post
October 31, 2018
A Pentagon official is urging Taiwan to ramp up its defence budget to protect against potential attacks from mainland China.
David Helvey, US principal deputy assistant secretary of defence for Asian and Pacific security affairs, told a conference in Annapolis, Maryland on Monday that the self-ruled island “must have resources to modernise its military and provide the critical materiel, manning and training needed to deter, or if necessary defeat, a cross-strait invasion”.
Helvey said “Taiwan’s current efforts will falter” unless its defence budgets keep growing, according to a transcript of his remarks released by the US-Taiwan Defence Industry Conference on Tuesday.
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