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solarz said:

LOL, more DPP shenanigans. Would be even more funny if some countries deported them back to the mainland.

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vesicles said:

I'm still a little confused about the missile incident. Why is the HF-3 called a carrier killer? It's deployed on a corvette... Is it ever big enough to do anything to a carrier?

Also, why did it take the missile 25 minutes to cover 40 NM? Was it drawing circles in the air like those bullets and missiles in classic Disney/WB cartoons???

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MwRYum said:

Why deport when the SOP for such thing internationally, is the checkpoint officer tell you (maybe nicely) in the face that "your travel document is not in order", tell you either "get it in order" immediately or to board the plane back to where you came from, and at least 2, big, perhaps even heavily armed personnel now stood beside you, ready to "persuade and assist" you to do it sharpish?

And then you've 2 options:
a. Rip off the stickers without further fuzz, line from the back again like a good "alien" (hehe, even Japan's checkpoints no longer use that word anymore) you're; or
b. "Free" Tasing experience session, then got your limped body handled like some luggage back to the plane you came from.

So far, haven't heard anyone so stubbon that they'd suffer the option "b" yet, most choose "a", then try to claw back some points saying "at least I've tried". Pfffff...


"Carrier killer" was coined from HF3 exhibit material back in 2013, when on the background board was painted with a burning hulk of an aircraft carrier, blurred but with the distinctive silhouette of a Admiral Kuznetsov class (PLAN Liaoning was launched in 2012) for all to see...and the sales slogan claimed it as "bane of Sovremennyy" and "carrier killer".

Well that's how ROC tried to sell it. And with it now "test and tried" the Taiwanese are understandably elated about it.

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solarz said:

They should now call it "fishing trawler killer".

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siegecrossbow said:

They do have a history of condoning and exonerating telemarketing scammers, so I am not gonna put it past them if the officers get nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

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getready said:

Didn't one of the crew member of the boat die?

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Taipei, July 11 (CNA) A ruling set to be handed down Tuesday by an international tribunal on a dispute between the Philippines and China over territorial issues in the South China Sea will not affect Taiwan's defenses on Taiping Island there, Coast Guard Administration (CGA）Director-General Lee Chung-wei（李仲威）said Monday.

Lee also said that the government's stance on its sovereignty claim over Taiping Island in the South China Sea remains unchanged and the CGA will not reduce its patrols in the area.

Lee made the comments before giving a report to the Legislative Yuan's Internal Administration Committee on measures the CGA will take to safeguard Taiwan-controlled Taiping following the July 12 ruling and reasons behind its decision to withdraw two new 100-ton CGA patrol vessels back to Taiwan from Taiping a few days ago.

During the legislative session, Lee said it was the CGA's decision to pull back the two patrol vessels and he will shoulder political responsibility if Taiwan loses control of Taiping due to the decision.

People First Party (PFP) Legislator Chen Yi-chieh (陳怡潔) questioned the CGA's decision to withdraw patrol boats while other countries concerned are strengthening their presence in the region. "Does this mean the government is wavering in its defense of sovereignty claim on the South China Sea?" she asked.

In response, Lee said that the CGA was just adjusting its security arrangements in the region by calling back the two vessels and it did not reduce the task force deployed in the region.

Lee said that the CGA has sent a 2,000-ton coast guard ship to the South China Sea on Sunday to patrol Taiping and other islands in the area.

Asked whether the CGA will intensify patrols in the South China Sea, Lee said it will depend on developments in the overall situation. However, "We are an enforcement unit, not a policy-making unit," Lee added.

Lee also reiterated that the government's stance on its sovereignty claims over Taiping and other islands in the South China Sea has never changed.

The two new 100-ton CGA patrol vessels were sent late last year to Taiping -- the largest island in the disputed Spratlys -- but returned to Taiwan and are now both docked in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, according to the CGA.

It said last week one of the vessels was brought back in April for annual maintenance, while the other was moved to Kaohsiung for safety reasons as Super Typhoon Nepartak was bearing down on Taiwan.

The second boat was due for annual maintenance in July, but the schedule was moved up because of the approaching typhoon, the CGA said.

According to a local newspaper report last Thursday, however, the two boats were moved from Taiping amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea ahead of the July 12 ruling.

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