Taiwan unveiled its first domestically developed submarine on Thursday, a major step in a years-long project aimed at strengthening the island’s defence and deterrence against the Chinese navy.
Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has made the indigenous submarine program a key part of an ambitious project to modernise its armed forces as Beijing stages almost daily military exercises to assert its sovereignty.
President Tsai Ing-wen, who initiated the plan when she took office in 2016, showed off the first of eight new submarines on Thursday in the southern city of Kaohsiung.
Taiwan reveals first homegrown submarine in defence milestone
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