Proud moment: Members of the navy posing next to ‘Hai Kun’, Taiwan’s first domestically built submarine, after its launching ceremony in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. — Reuters
THE nation unveiled its first domestically built submarine yesterday, with the massively outgunned island seeking to bolster its defences against China.
China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, and has in the past year stepped up military and political pressure, ramping up the number of warplane incursions around the island while diplomatically isolating it.
