Reports of Dongfeng missiles in Xiamen 'untrue': defense ministry
ROC Central News Agency
2016/05/16 21:36:13
Taipei, May 16 (CNA) The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Monday dismissed as "untrue" some media reports that China has raised its war preparedness by deploying Dongfeng 21D missiles in Xiamen, opposite the Taiwan-held Kinmen Islands.
Taiwanese media cited bowenpress.com, an overseas-based Chinese-language media outlet, as saying that China was moving Dongfeng 21D missiles, known as "aircraft carrier killers," to its southeastern coast just days before the inauguration of a new president in Taiwan.
Discrediting such reports as "not factual," Taiwan's defense ministry said it has a good grasp of China's military movements and urged people to "take it easy" rather than panic.
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, whose pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is far more wary of relations with China than the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) government, will take office on May 20.
China has taken actions to put pressure on the future president and government to move closer to the "1992 consensus," a formula that has underpinned Taiwan-China relations since 2008 but that the DPP doesn't accept.
The KMT government sees the "1992 consensus" as a tacit agreement that there is only "one China," with each free to interpret what that means.
(By Hsieh Chia-chen and S.C. Chang)
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