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Taiwan media exposed a major incident today The arms purchase fraud case shook the island.
This incident involves Taiwan's " Chinese Academy of Sciences ", the highest military scientific research institution on the island, and the "Tiangong" missile, one of the main missiles of Taiwan's air defense forces. But some of the clumsy and even ridiculous details make people feel absurd.
There are early signs of this fraud.
The manufacturers on the island involved in the case rely on such a low-level "deception" to get a big defense order, which is not once or twice on the island.
The DPP authorities set out huge military expenditures in an attempt to increase military strength, and in the end, I don't know whose personal pockets they got.
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, the first Taiwanese media "Mirror Weekly" to reveal the inside story, used words such as "shock" and "major arms purchase fraud" in the title to express shock. Relevant reports were quickly reprinted by other Taiwanese media today, causing shocks in the public opinion field on the island.
The first reason is that this happened to the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" in Taiwan.
"Chinese Academy of Sciences", full name " Zhongshan Institute of Science ", formerly known as "Zhongshan Institute of Science of the Ministry of National Defense Armament Bureau", established in 1969. It is the highest military scientific research institution on the island, with Taiwan's "Defense Minister" Qiu Guozheng concurrently serving as its chairman.
This agency has been given an important role in Taiwan's defense.
At the end of last year, Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" passed the "Special Regulations on the Procurement of the Sea and Air Combat Power Enhancement Plan", and decided to provide a budget of 240 billion yuan ( NT , the same below) to purchase eight items including "Tiangong 3" on a large scale arms. Among them, 180 billion yuan is contracted by Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" to Taiwan's private manufacturers, and the relevant procurement plan is "intensively" in progress.
If an accident happened to the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" in Taiwan, the wide-ranging impact can be imagined.
What's more, this military purchase fraud case also directly involves the "Tiangong" missile.
This series of air defense missiles is independently developed by Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences", and is currently one of the main missiles of Taiwan's air defense forces, which have been deployed all over Taiwan.
A Taiwanese media said that after the DPP authorities came to power, they pushed for the so-called "defense independence". In response to the mainland's Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missile , Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" formulated the "Kirin Project" to develop countermeasures. The project
is based on the "Tiangong" missile.
A fraud involving two "key points" in Taiwan's defense has already made the DPP authorities and the green camps green enough.
What made them even more embarrassed were some clumsy details in the fraud case.
"Mirror Weekly" broke the news that some important parts of weapon systems such as "Tiangong" missiles and missile positions, including screws, ammonium perchlorate raw materials for explosions, silicon-controlled rectifiers for power-on, militaryMajor tenders such as gauge wires, diodes, , and linear integrated circuits all have "problems."
missiles that use these parts "may not be able to conduct conductive ejection or detonate".
At least 3 domestic manufacturers who have long-term contracted Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" bid have been identified as involved in the case. They were accused of using products produced in the mainland as "authentic products from the United States", and even purchased products from the mainland, repackaged them, printed military-standard part numbers, and delivered them, thereby deceiving Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" and earning a price difference of up to 100 times.
As for the details of how the Taiwanese companies involved in the case forged documents, purchased second-hand wires from the mainland and returned them to "refurbish" them, we won't go into details. Just a few details discovered in the report by "Mirror Weekly" are enough to make people laugh and laugh.
For example, some mixed-charge parts can be bought on Taobao in mainland China.
Some Taiwanese media described the products purchased by the manufacturer involved as "inferior" and "defective" from the mainland, which was immediately ridiculed by netizens on the island. For example, some netizens said that the mainland "has already been in space, and they say that their parts are of inferior quality? It's a joke!" "The mainland has inferior parts, but the United States has good parts? What kind of brainwashing news is this?!"
Of course, this is not focus. The key point of
is that, coupled with the actual hammer that purchased second-hand wires, this fraud operation immediately gave an impression that Taiwan's defense department used "Taobao second-hand goods" to build anti-aircraft missiles, and said it could ensure Taiwan's "safety"... ...
has another detail, that is, the boss of one of the manufacturers involved in the case turned out to be a "seller of cosmetics".
According to Mirror Weekly's investigation, Xunzhang Technology Co., Ltd. in Taoyuan won the bid twice in 2019 and 2020, and won the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" military-regulated rectifier large order, but he then used products produced in mainland China to subpackage genuine American products to make profits from it. .
Xunzhang Technology Co., Ltd. has been established for more than 20 years. The founder is Chen Qingmao. According to Taiwanese media, he is not from the military. In addition to Xun Zhang, Chen Qingmao also opened an Angshen International Company, which is engaged in the cosmetics industry.
, a "seller of cosmetics", how can he be able to undertake a long-term military purchase order from Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences"?
"Mirror Weekly" said that it may be related to the company's employees who worked in the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" in Taiwan.
The entire "Tiangong" missile key fraud case was exposed, because other manufacturers always fail to win the bid, plus they know that Chen Qingmao and his son use mainland production products to subpackage genuine US factory parts, and suspect that Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" is covered up, so someone wrote a letter report.
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There are early signs of this.
At the end of last year, the "Special Regulations on the Procurement of Sea and Air Combat Power Enhancement Program" had been criticized for lack of supervision before it was passed.
has mentioned before that this special budget has a total expenditure of 240 billion yuan in 5 years, of which 180 billion yuan will be contracted by Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences" to private enterprises to participate.
The problem is that the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" has already been transformed into an administrative legal person, and the internal bidding process is not subject to the procurement constraints of the authorities. And the "special regulations" passed in the end simply eliminated the so-called "Government Procurement Law" and other restrictions, and became a blank cheque for an extra-large amount of money.
lack of supervision, and the temptation of huge profits, the emergence of fraud is not surprising.
Although some Kuomintang "legislators" have long questioned, in the process of negotiating this special budget, "the content cannot be discussed and the project cannot be changed", there are too many tricks, what is the DPP escorting? Where will the 240 billion yuan be spent? Where is
spent? Everyone knows now.
These are the hard-earned money of Taiwanese people.
A Taiwanese scholar calculated an account: In the total budget of the DPP authorities this year, the head of the Ministry of National Defense budgeted 372.6 billion yuan, plus a special budget of 40.1 billion yuan for the procurement of new fighter jets and a special fund business expenditure of 59 billion yuan. A total of 471.7 billion yuan. If the five-year special budget of 240 billion yuan is added, it is equal to an average of 48 billion yuan per year, and the total size of Taiwan's "defense budget" in 2022 will reach 519.7 billion yuan.
Such a huge "defense budget" is twice the " expenditure on economic development" (260.7 billion yuan) compiled in the general budget, higher than education, science and culture expenditure (456.1 billion yuan), and almost equal to social welfare expenditure (601.8 billion yuan). Yuan), the conversion ratio of to GDP and is 2.3%.
"The rapid expansion of military spending is something we have not seen in the past so many years." On February 7, the US Department of Defense just announced another arms sale to Taiwan worth about $100 million. Last August, the US announced arms sales to Taiwan worth about $750 million.
Taiwanese media are very puzzled: "The defense budget has already exploded. Does Taiwan need to borrow money from the United States to buy arms?" Over the years, I have heard too many things that are self-sufficient.
for an example.
Taiwan's "Ministry of Defense" spent more than 770 million yuan to purchase 20 "high-performance" Sea Dragon speedboats in 2007, but found that the two officers who were in charge of the procurement at the time colluded with people from the shipbuilding company to release water during acceptance, causing these speedboats to become "Slow boat", which cannot be fully loaded with officers and weapons after being filled with fuel.
The funny thing is that the evidence in this case is so clear that the trial took 10 years, and it was not until September 2020 that he was charged with corruption and other charges with a minimum sentence of 10 years.
The more serious problem is that the Longde shipyard involved in the case is still the contractor of the Tuojiang-class warships. It has orders for at least 20 ships. Who can guarantee that there will be no similar cutting corners in the future.
Of course, these are not the concerns of the DPP authorities.
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said back to the "Tiangong" fraud case.
A military scholar told Buyidao that there is a class of parts and components, which are relatively basic and commercialized shelf products. They can be used not only on missiles, but also for other purposes. Moreover, this is an era of globalization, and the manufacturing industry in mainland China provides products and services to the world. Purchasing these components is commonplace, and buyers value the "Made in China" cost-effective and reliable quality.
This is easy to understand. Second-level contractor of Taiwan's "Chinese Academy of Sciences"After bidding for the trademark, I felt that the relevant products in the mainland were good, so I bought it. This is purely a business practice.
The DPP authorities don't need to be so sensitive at all, even the United States has also been reported to have bought parts from mainland China. The 2020 annual report released by
data analysis company Goviny revealed that Chinese (mainland) components have entered the industrial chain of the US hypersonic weapon.
Goviny conducted a supply chain risk assessment of seven first-tier contractors for hypersonic weapons in the United States and found that two companies used about 4% of the core components made in China; in the third-tier supply chain, the average value of Chinese components The proportion rose to 10%; in the five-tier supply chain, the proportion was 11%.
The proportion of Chinese parts and components is gradually increasing, which is well understood. This is because , the Chinese supplier of , has a higher share in the manufacturing of these parts.
and the DPP authorities have repeatedly mentioned "self-made submarines" and other weapons, which have long become soap bubbles that can be burst with a single poke.
Just last month, some media in Taiwan revealed that the "light sniper rifle", which it claimed to be self-developed and manufactured, was judged to have insufficient shooting accuracy and failed performance tests during acceptance.
can't even make guns, missiles, submarine ... One can imagine it.
The DPP authorities do not understand that no matter how many weapons it spends so much to buy or "build", it will be like a man's arm in front of the mainland.
You must know that Taiwan's security is not maintained by weapons, but can only be achieved through political means.
If the DPP authorities are bent on "rejecting reunification by force" or even "seeking independence by force", it will only be a dead end. It's military spending is only enough to engage in a little bit of flak in the face of the People's Liberation Army.
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