The China Post
Date: July 3, 2016
By: The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan is unlikely to be replaced over the missile misfire despite some lawmakers’ demands he resign to take responsibility, the Central News Agency cited high-ranking officials as saying Saturday.
The country’s national security authorities have made preliminary determinations that the defense minister should not take the blame and step down, as the responsibility should be assumed by the military’s command officers, rather than its administration, the CNA cited unnamed “core” officials as saying.
The sources said Feng has been in office for only more than a month, and there is no need to replace him at present, which would dampen the new government’s authority and image.
But President Tsai Ing-wen will decide what responsibility Feng should bear now that she has returned to Taiwan from her overseas official trip, said the sources. [FULL STORY]