China News Service, May 5th. According to comprehensive Taiwan media reports, the United States did not stop or cancel the arms sales case of the Taiwan Navy's purchase of anti-submarine helicopters in response to a public opinion representative questioning the Taiwan Navy's purchase of anti-submarine helicopters. Qiu Guozheng said that he did not buy it because the price was too high.
Taiwan's legislature invited Qiu Guozheng to attend the project report and accept questions on the 5th.
The DPP public opinion representatives are concerned about the changes in the three arms sales cases, including the "MH-60R anti-submarine helicopter", "M109A6 self-propelled gun truck" of the Shenying III, and the "Stinger Missile" of the Youlong project.
Qiu Guozheng responded that the first case (Shenying 3) was because the price was too high and beyond the scope of ability; the second and third cases were due to the change in the supply schedule due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
According to Taiwanese media, this is Qiu Guozheng's first public confirmation that the Taiwan Navy's "Shenying 3" purchase of 12 anti-submarine aircraft will indeed be stopped.
According to previous reports, this is not the first time that Taiwan's military has "influenced" its purchases from the United States for price reasons.
Taiwan's "Air Force Chief of Staff" Huang Zhiwei confirmed in Taiwan's legislature on April 11 that the Taiwan Air Force's UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter modification case with night vision equipment has applied for cancellation of the entire case.
In this case, no matter whether the original institution was changed or a new machine was purchased, the price exceeded the existing overall resources.
Some "legislators" criticized the budget. The budget was compiled and approved. How was it planned in the first place?
Huang Zhiwei said that the original agency of the whole case was changed to the Taiwan side with an allocation of more than 1.9 billion yuan (New Taiwan dollars, the same below), but the US side quoted 4.3 billion yuan, and it would cost 18 billion yuan to buy 5 new machines.
At that time, it was reported that Taiwan's defense department rarely showed a "tough" attitude toward the United States, and proposed the so-called "four no-buy" (no "second long-range early warning radar", no "Apache helicopter") purchased by the U.S. military. , do not buy "US military decommissioned warships", do not buy "Black Hawk helicopters"), and admitted that the United States "demanded sky-high prices" from Taiwan on the grounds of upgrading the Black Hawk helicopters, and the Taiwan military had no choice but to cancel the procurement plan.