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Taiwan and Project Diving Dragon

Taiwan and Project Diving Dragon

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Dec 15, 2010
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It was a report that sounded bizarre on its face: A secret Taiwan navy delegation visits Russia under the cover of a commercial delegation, ostensibly to buy icebreakers but actually to try to acquire diesel submarines.

The story, in the Chinese-language Next Magazine, was immediately denied by the Taiwanese military with two successive press conferences…

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