The National Interest
Date: November 29, 2017
By: Rowan Allport

It is clear to Taiwan that it can’t match mainland China’s military might. As a result, the country is increasingly relying on an asymmetric approach to close the gap. But Taipei’s plan to focus significant resources on building up the country’s submarine fleet probably isn’t the best way forward.

Taiwan’s latest quadrennial defense review, released in March 2017, departed little from previous versions in its basic strategy. The review highlighted the increasing capabilities of mainland China’s forces and the need for countermeasures to ‘achieve resolute defense through multi-domain deterrence’ by ‘adopting innovative/asymmetric means’.

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