Exposed!He called "Taiwanese men and women must be soldiers for one year"

Author:Global Times Time:2022.07.21

Former US Minister of Defense Esper, who was unwilling to be lonely, led the "Atlantic Council" to visit Taiwan. On the 19th, he was amazing when he held a press conference in Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs": Taiwan's military service should be at least one year, boys and girls should be Participate to improve defense capabilities. He said: "If the Chinese mainland launched a war to invade Taiwan, the target of the attack was the owner of Taiwan.

This sounds a bit familiar, like Washington made Kyiv "fight to the last Ukrainian"?

At the press conference, in response to Taiwan's "national defense policy", Esper proposed a total of 4 suggestions, and military service was one of them. First, increase the "national defense" budget; second, strengthen asymmetric combat capabilities, third, the voluntary service of military service should be extended for more than one year, fourth, strengthen the ability of reserve soldiers to mobilize.

Heated discussion on the island. The Democratic Progressive Party is embarrassed.

Tsai Ing -wen doesn't know what to say. "Presidential Palace" spokesman Zhang Yanhan said that the Presidential Palace did not comment. But thanks to Esper's "long -term support for Taiwan and their attention and attention to Taiwan's" defense '. " As for the duty service period, the "Ministry of National Defense" evaluated the opinions of all parties, and must measure the training capacity of war training tasks, and meets the national army's strengthening of the "asymmetric combat" combat thinking, and effectively respond to the needs of modern warfare.

On the morning of the 20th, the issue of "young men and women in Taiwan can only be served in the army at least one year in order to defend Taiwan's security". Taiwan's "executive president" Su Zhenchang took care of him and used empty diplomatic words: "Cai Since taking office, the president has been strengthening national defense and cooperating with regional countries. Partners and countries who have the same values and countries work together to maintain national sovereignty and regional peace and world peace. The preparation and training of domestic military personnel will continue to review and improve. "

Xu Qiaoxin, a "member" in Taipei City, wrote through Facebook on the 20th that "men and women are advocating" are not Esper's patent! As early as April last year, she proposed three claims such as "Taiwan's voluntary service period should be extended", "men and women are soldiers" and "insufficient reserve forces". People came to Taiwan to visit the same claim. The DPP attitude from top to bottom is "very polite".

When the "Presidential Palace" was met by Tsai Ing -wen on the 19th, Esper also stated that from his personal point of view, a Chinese policy "no longer use" and "should be far away from strategic blur." He also told Tsai Ing -wen that Taiwan's "defense budget" should increase to 3.2%or more every year as the United States. He also said that "Israel, which is similar to Taiwan", and military expenses account for 5%of GDP.

Researcher Jie Zhong, a researcher at the Taiwan China Strategic Prospective Association, calculated a account. If the military expenses were arranged according to Esper's suggestion, the 3.2%of GDP was NT $ 722.6 billion, accounting for 32%of the total government budget expenditure in 2022; GDP The 5%was NT $ 1129 billion, accounting for 50%of the total government expenditure in 2022. He said that this means that Taiwan will have no way to invest in education, science and technology, transportation, etc. in the future.

As for men and women for more than a year. Jiezhong said that under the circumstances where the current 166,600 volunteer manpower is not cut sharply, with Taiwan's limited training venues and energy, in the proposal of Esper, a large amount of members formed by men and women's military uniforms for more than one year. It is an impossible task at all.

China Times News Network said that Esper advocated the "all the people" theory of the Taiwan defense policy regardless of men and women. The auction of "auction" to Taiwan for sale. It's hard not to let people do more associations.

Esper has only been in the U.S. Defense Minister for more than a year, and has approved more than $ 10 billion in Taiwan's military sales plans, including 66 F-16V, Heman multi-tube rocket system and "fish fork" anti-ship missiles.