This comes as the island has come under increasing military and political pressure from Beijing.
TAIPEI: Taiwan has set up a task force to draw lessons from the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Thursday, saying intelligence is key to preventing a war as the island works to counter China’s military threats.
Chiu, asked by reporters at parliament about what lessons Taiwan has learned from Israel’s conflict with Palestinian Hamas militants, said the ministry had set up a task force to monitor the situation. Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections in January, which the main opposition party, the Kuomintang , has cast as a choice between war and peace. The KMT has accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party of taking Taiwan to the brink of war by intentionally provoking China, which it strongly denies.
Senior DPP lawmaker Wang Ting-yu, responding on his Facebook page, criticised the KMT for not condemning China and its threats against Taiwan.
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