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Taiwan begins building submarine fleet as China threat grows

By AFP
28 November 2020   |   12:05 pm
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen kicks off construction of the island's first indigenous submarine at a Kaohsiung shipyard, the latest move by the out-gunned democratic island to bolster its defence capabilities against increasingly bellicose threats from Beijing.

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