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Military at peacetime readiness
NORMAL STATUS: The military adjusts the number of troops on alert depending on the security situation around Taiwan, the deputy minister of national defense said
Staff writer, with CNA
The nation’s armed forces remain at “normal combat readiness status,” despite tensions across the Taiwan Strait and a foreign magazine calling Taiwan “the most dangerous place on Earth,” Deputy Minister of National Defense Chang Che-ping (張哲平) said yesterday.
The military continuously adjusts the number of troops on alert depending on developments in the security situation around Taiwan, Chang told a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.
Last month, the Ministry of National Defense announced plans to form a new reserve mobilization agency, integrating two existing military agencies the All-out Defense Mobilization Office and the Armed Forces Reserve Command into a new “defense reserve mobilization agency” by January next year.
During a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee on April 19, Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) told legislators that the proposed reforms to the military reserve system would include amending the Civilian Defense Act (民防法) to allow the military to mobilize post-disaster relief volunteer workers at Buddhist and Taoist
Nation sends oxygen machines to India
JUST THE BEGINNING: The government is planning to buy more machines, as well as raw materials to build them, to help India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNA
The nation is to ship 150 oxygen machines to India this weekend, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday, while confirming that talks are underway to conduct clinical trials of a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine in Paraguay.
The ministry has since last weekend been looking for ways to help India, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) told reporters in Taipei before heading into a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee to report on Taiwan-Japan relations.