Taiwan’s “United Daily News” said on the 22nd, Taiwan’s defense department on the 21st in the form of a press release, “naming” monitoring of the PLA’s long-distance fire, rocket forces, as well as the dynamics of a ground force in Fujian. Taiwan media said the island’s defense department in the past very little real-time and publicly indicated that the PLA ground force dynamics, but the 17th of this month issued a press release for the first time that the Taiwan military “is closely grasp the monitoring of the PLA’s air defense, far fire and other force dynamics,” the 21st for the second time, “name”! PLA ground forces dynamics, which demonstrates the meaning of monitoring and investigation capabilities thick.
For Taiwan’s defense department claimed to monitor the PLA ground forces, the island military experts believe that, in addition to the PLA aircraft and ships, far fire, rocket forces is a “threat” to Taiwan. In this way, the defense department said, “not only to monitor the navy and air force, but also have the ability to monitor the threat from the land”.
But does the Taiwanese army really have the relevant reconnaissance capabilities? The United Daily News said, because the Taiwan army is not equipped with long-range ground detection radar, remote ground target intelligence acquisition capability has to be strengthened, it is analyzed through other intelligence cooperation channels to obtain the relevant satellite surveillance and detection of real-time information. Taiwan media quoted unnamed officials as saying that the Taiwan military joint intelligence monitoring and detection system, including allied intelligence cooperation pipeline. It is understood that the main U.S. side to provide real-time satellite reconnaissance information.
Mainland military expert Song Zhongping said in an interview with the “Global Times” reporter on the 22nd, the Taiwan army is more concerned about the dynamics of the PLA military services, just before there is no reconnaissance of the PLA’s ground forces, at best, the so-called monitoring of naval and air force ships and aircraft cruising around the island. The recent several times “named” is actually the U.S. military to the Taiwan military into the U.S. intelligence surveillance system, that is to say, the U.S. side to the Taiwan military to provide military intelligence.
Song Zhongping believes that the U.S. military for the Taiwan military to provide the PLA dynamic is deliberate, taking the opportunity to render the PLA’s “military threat theory”. For the Taiwan military, unable to fight the PLA in the mainland coastal provinces and cities deployed military facilities, but the United States will encourage the Taiwan military to buy more long-range guided weapons to fight the PLA in the coastal and even the hinterland of the military capability. In the short term, the so-called “monitoring of PLA ground forces” poses a limited threat to the PLA, but if the United States continues to use this as an excuse to sell weapons to the island, this trend warrants vigilance.