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US frigate sale to boost security: MND

Saturday, 20 December 2014 08:07 Taipei Times

A file handout image released by the US Navy Media Content Service on June 6 shows US Navy Perry-class frigate the USS Elrod assisting in the rescue of distressed persons in the Mediterranean Sea.
Photo: EPA

Taiwan is grateful to the US for agreeing to sell four Perry-class guided missile frigates, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said yesterday, adding that they would enhance the nation’s defense capabilities and contribute to peace and stability in the region.

China reacted by lodging a formal complaint with the US and calling for an end to arms sales to Taiwan.

Study urges US-Taiwan intelligence cooperation

Friday, 19 December 2014 08:05 Taipei Times

A new study urges the White House to improve US intelligence ties to Taiwan and to support the nation’s indigenous submarine program.

Published this week by the Project 2049 Institute, the study calls for a massive intelligence-sharing system that would include the exchange of everything from radar and sonar data to secret information from signals, human agents and imagery.

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A new US study on Taiwan’s economy cautions that gains from current trade and investment talks with China may be limited and that Taipei needs to concentrate on internal economic restructuring and the cultivation “of new and dynamic foreign relationships beyond the straits.”

Written by Derek Scissors, a research fellow in Asia Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation, the study says Taiwan should reform corporate taxation and the “sheltered” domestic service sector.