Taipei Times
Date: Aug 31, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan is part of the solution to challenges posed by China and North Korea in the Indo-
Retired US Navy admiral James Stavridis, left, yesterday speaks to Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu, right, at the 2018 Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
Pacific region with its close relations with the US and Japan, a former NATO commander said yesterday.
The expansion of China’s military force and North Korea’s nuclear program pose a threat to regional security, retired US Navy admiral James Stavridis, who was the alliance’s supreme commander from 2009 to 2013, told the one-day Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue in Taipei.
With China’s naval capacity continuing to expand and its warships traveling around the world, Stavridis said that Beijing is becoming a significant player in the Indo-Pacific region.
China’s construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea is even more worrying, he said. [FULL STORY]