Radio Taiwan International
Date: 11 September, 2020
By: Leslie Liao

Vice President William Lai says that Taiwan is the target of an average 30 million hacking attempts from China each month. Lai was speaking Friday during an address at HITCON 2020, a hacking conference being held in Taipei. 

Lai says that the attempts are uncovered by the 300 million anti-hacking scans conducted each month in Taiwan by both the public and private sectors.    [FULL  STORY]

‘NOT AN INCH’: The president said after incursions by Chinese warplanes that there should be very smooth collaboration between the executive and military branches

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 12, 2020
By: Su Yung-yao and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said that Taiwan would not budge “an inch” on issues of sovereign territory and would stalwartly defend its democratic freedoms.

Tsai made the remarks during an inspection of surface-to-air missiles at an air force base in Hualien.

She was accompanied by National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Wellington Koo (顧立雄), Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa (嚴德發), Chief of the General Staff Huang Shu-kuang (黃曙光) and Republic of China Air Force Commander Hsiung Hou-chi (熊厚基).

After attending a briefing, Tsai was given a demonstration of procedures for a missile launch.
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United Press International
Date: Sept. 11, 2020
By: Elizabeth Shim

Sept. 11 (UPI) — Taiwan is urging China to exercise restraint following the flight of Beijing's military aircraft off the coast of Taiwan, actions that endanger international commercial flights, according to Taipei.

Taiwan's ministries of national defense and foreign affairs condemned a joint naval-air exercise 90 miles from the Taiwanese coast that has involved dozens of Chinese military aircraft in Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone, Taipei Times and Taiwan's Central News Agency reported Friday.

In separate press briefings late Thursday, the ministries held the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the unprecedented drills that are being interpreted as provocations from Beijing.

According to Taiwan's military, China conducted drills Wednesday and Thursday with more than 30 military aircraft. Seven Chinese warships were also training in waters southwest of Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]

When it comes to our sovereign territory, we don't give an inch: Tsai

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/09/11
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) responded to increased Chinese military activity near Taiwan by visiting two air defense bases Friday (Sept. 11).

During her meetings with officers, she also emphasized her determination to defend Taiwan, CNA reported. “When it comes to our sovereign territory, we don’t give an inch. When it comes to democratic freedoms, we stand firm,“ she wrote in an English-language tweet.

On the eve of her visits, the Ministry of National Defense slammed aggressive behavior by China’s military over the past two days, including numerous incursions by warplanes into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

Accompanied by top defense and national security officials Friday, the president attended a lecture explaining how anti-aircraft missiles were fired before telling the staff they were “small units with a large responsibility” to protect north Taiwan against the enemy.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 09/11/2020
By: Wen Kuei-hsiang and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Sept. 11 (CNA) The memorial service of former President Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) will be held at three venues in New Taipei on Sept. 19, and President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will award Lee a posthumous citation during the event.

The main venue of the service will be the chapel of Aletheia University in Tamsui, according to a statement released by the Presidential Office on Friday.

Around 800 people, including Tsai and Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德), government officials, representatives of political parties, foreign envoys, and the late president's family members and relatives, have been invited to attend the service there.

The second venue will be the chapel of Tamkang Senior High School, next to Aletheia University, for alumni of the high school that Lee attended and members of the public. Up to 500 people will be allowed to enter the venue, according to the statement.   [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 10 September, 2020
By: Katherine Wei

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Joanne Ou has told China that while Taiwan is not looking for a fight, it isn’t afraid to defend itself, either. That’s after a string of Chinese military jets entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) early on Wednesday and Thursday. 

“The enemy should not underestimate the Taiwanese people, nor the Taiwanese government’s determination to protect the country,” Ou said.     [FULL  STORY]

Washington Examiner
Date: September 10, 2020
By: Tom Rogan, Commentary Writer

Taiwan is a democratic partner that the United States has pledged to support. That support takes on escalating importance as Taiwan faces a rapidly rising threat from Beijing. But the U.S. government must proceed cautiously as it frames how best to provide that support. Miscalculation carries great danger: undesired war and the corollary risk of American bodies at the bottom of the East China Sea.

Risk management, then, should be the rule of America’s evolving strategy here. But that’s not to say America should flee from risk. Indeed, the U.S. must be willing to entertain more fury from China to help secure Taiwan. That means boosting Taiwan’s ability to deter invasion, and supporting an alliance of nations in Taiwan’s support.

At a basic level, this means selling Taipei more weapons that give it added means of holding any Chinese invasion force at bay. More anti-ship missiles, in particular, but also improved radar and sonar sensor nets, redundant air defense networks, and strengthened air forces. The Trump administration’s decision to sell Taiwan F-16V fighter jets and Harpoon anti-ship missiles is a step in the right direction. But the administration could also encourage other high-end defense exporters such as Britain, France, and Germany to offer more of their better equipment to Taiwan. German submarines would be of particular value.

There is a balance to strike here. The U.S. should not sell Taiwan the highest-end weapons platforms, such as the F-22 and F-35 strike fighters, and the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, system. Such sales would risk Beijing’s intelligence apparatus learning how to better defeat those platforms. But even the announcement of such a sale would increase the likelihood of Beijing taking preemptive action to seize Taiwan before those systems could be fully deployed.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/09/10
By:  Central News Agency

Prosecutors on Thursday indicted three men who allegedly splashed red paint on Lam Wing-kee (林榮基), founder of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books, in Taipei earlier this year.

Lam, who fled to Taiwan amid fears of Chinese persecution, was attacked on April 21 as he ate breakfast at a coffee shop in Taipei's Zhongshan District, just days before opening his new bookshop in the city.

The Taipei City Prosecutors Office charged the three suspects in the attack — a 51-year-old man surnamed Cheng (鄭) and two brothers aged 33 and 27 surnamed Tseng (曾) — with causing bodily injury, coercion, public insult and damages.

Prosecutors allege that Cheng, who lives in Kaohsiung, was angered by Lam's pro-democracy and human rights advocacy in Hong Kong and conceived the attack after learning that he planned to reopen his Causeway Bay Books on April 25 in Taipei.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 09/10/2020
By: Emerson Lim and Matt Yu

Taipei, Sept. 10 (CNA) Taiwan's government on Thursday slammed Beijing for its increasingly provocative actions after multiple incursions by Chinese Air Force planes and Navy vessels when they conducted drills within 90 nautical miles (166 kilometers) of Taiwan over the past two days.

In a hastily called press conference Thursday night, Vice Defense Minister Chang Che-ping (張哲平) said military assets of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Wednesday and Thursday.

"These military actions have seriously roiled Taiwan and threaten peace and stability in the region," Chang said.

He warned that PLA military assets are also maneuvering along international flight routes, endangering international aviation safety, adding that the Chinese authorities should exercise restraint and not be a "trouble maker" in the region.    [FULL  STORY]

CALL FOR PEACE: Taiwan urged China to exercise restraint to maintain regional stability, while calling on like-minded nations to recognize the threat Beijing poses

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 11, 2020
By: Aaron Tu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Ministry of National Defense yesterday criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for holding a joint naval-air exercise 90 nautical miles (166km) off the coast of Taiwan, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the global community to squarely face up to the threat posed by China.

Both ministries held rare impromptu news conferences yesterday evening to denounce China’s action.

The defense ministry had earlier issued an English-language statement on Twitter calling on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to exercise restraint and for the CCP to be a peacemaker and maintain regional stability.9

It said it had detected multiple waves of PLA Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft crossing into Taiwan’s southwestern air defense identification zone yesterday morning, the second consecutive day that PLAAF aircraft entered the zone.    [FULL  STORY]