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China ridicules Taiwan's defence goals as island unveils new submarine (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 years ago by flathead@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The submarines will use a combat system by US defence company Lockheed Martin Corp and carry US-made torpedoes.

Admiral Huang Shu-kuang, Ms Tsai's security adviser, described the submarines as a "strategic deterrent" that could also help maintain the island's "lifeline" to the Pacific by keeping ports along Taiwan's eastern coast open.

China openly ridiculed Taiwanese hopes for what the submarines could do to defend the island.

“No matter how many weapons the Democratic Progressive Party buys, it will not obstruct the greater trend of reunification with the motherland,” said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson in China's Ministry of National Defense.

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[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

China: Your submarine is stupid and you look awful in that light.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*West Taiwan

they're gonna get real mad if you use the wrong name xd

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Link does not match title

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it does. original headline image

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Probably depends on locale. Definitely doesn't match what I see

[–] Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id 1 points 2 years ago

Ye, doesn't match on mine as well.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Headline A/B testing will show multiple headlines to different users before settling to the one with most engagement

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

This looks like a standard utility / attack sub, but I wonder if it could be used as a blockade runner / merchant sub if China tried to blockade Taiwan. It wouldn't do much good for shipping bulk goods like food in, but you wouldn't need much cargo capacity to ship out high value, small size things like the chips made by TSMC.