Taiwan hopes to deploy at least two new, domestically developed submarines by 2027 to strengthen deterrence against the Chinese navy and protect key supply lines.
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Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, has made the indigenous sub-program a key part of an ambitious project to modernize its armed forces as Beijing stages almost daily military exercises to assert its sovereignty.
Taiwanese admiral Admiral Huang Shu-Kuang, who is leading the program, said a fleet of 10 submarines – which includes two Dutch-made submarines commissioned in the 1980s – will make it harder for the Chinese navy to project power into the Pacific.