Taiwan's Navy has carried out asymmetric warfare drills, including laying sea mines and preparing anti-ship weapons systems, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.
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00:00 I'm here at this naval base in Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung
00:03 Where the military is conducting a special kind of exercise as a way to boost the country's combat readiness
00:08 That's how one's military is practicing how to lay sea mines and how to deploy anti-ship and anti-air missiles
00:15 As part of the country's asymmetric strategy those are in response to a threat like a drone or an enemy aircraft
00:22 Now because Taiwan faces a threat from neighboring China
00:25 Which has the world's largest Navy and spend significantly more in defense
00:29 The military here is focusing on using smaller more mobile and lethal weapons like those sea mines to protect its territory
00:36 It's asymmetric weapons like these that offer a much more cost-effective solution
00:53 One warship could cost hundreds of millions of dollars versus sea mines and these anti-ship weapons which only cost a few thousand
01:01 Taiwan's military says that this demonstration is a way to show the public that even while the millions of people travel abroad for Lunar New Year
01:08 That Taiwan's armed forces are still on guard and protecting the country
01:11 Scott Wong and I'm in Kaohsiung for Taiwan Plus
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