Taiwan needs to prepare for China’s maritime militia threat: experts

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/06/14
By:  Central News Agency

Taiwan needs to be better prepared for offensives by China's state-supported maritime militia, which Beijing uses to further its political, economic and military goals in the region, Taiwanese security analysts said in a recent study.

China's maritime militia has been harassing or attacking vessels from other countries in the region, and Taiwan must take steps to counter the threat, Paul Huang (黃恩浩) and Hung Ming-te (洪銘德) wrote in a paper titled "China's maritime militia and the gray zone conflicts" published on June 5.

Huang and Hung, researchers with the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), said the use of this armed fishing militia is part of Beijing's "gray zone" tactics to defend its interests without having to wage a conventional war.

The tactic prevents the offending party from responding militarily, they said, citing two recent examples.    [FULL  STYORY]