Taiwan needs to explore radical new ways to defend itself from the People's Liberation Army given the growing gap between the military capabilities of the two countries, says a US-based think tank.
In the report titled "Hard ROC 2.0: Taiwan and Deterrence Through Protraction," the Washington-based, non-governmental Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments suggests that Taiwan abandon traditional defense tactics in favor of geurrilla and cyber warfare given that their defense expenditure is dwarfed by that of the mainland.
"With the resource gap approaching fourteen-to-one (US$145 million to US$10.8 million in 2013), even if Taiwan were to massively increase its defence budget, it would not reverse the cumulative advantages the PRC has accrued over the past two decades," said the report.
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