Taipei Times
Date: Oct 17, 2017
By: Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA
The government should maintain conscription, pro-independence groups said
World United Formosans for Independence chairman Chen Nan-tien at a news conference in Taipei yesterday calls on the government to reinstate the military draft. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
yesterday, adding that the all-volunteer force scheduled to be implemented next year will not keep the nation safe.
World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI) and the Taiwan Radical Wings Party (TRWP) jointly held a press event, titled “Observations on the Taiwan Crisis.”
Taiwan is in a crisis because its government and public are too complacent to be conscious of the Chinese military threat, WUFI chairman Chen Nan-tien (陳南天) said.
An all-volunteer military is not a viable policy in light of the nation’s conflicted identity, but politicians are too fearful of losing votes to tackle the nation’s need for the military draft, Chen said. [FULL STORY]
