He asked whether this would signal closer military cooperation with the US. Yen said that Taiwan’s participation in the Indo-Pacific strategy is a response to enemy activities. Apart from the 2,000 aircraft, the Chinese Communist Party has also sailed aircraft carriers through the Strait, which has put the nation under greater military threat, Yen said. Yen said that the F-35 would not fit the nation’s need to strengthen its air force quickly. Tseng then asked whether the nation would “buy whatever the US wants us to [buy],” to which Yen replied: “No.”

Source: Taipei Times November 12, 2019 16:03 UTC