A tactically appealing argument has been proposed recently that Taiwan should abandon its surface combatant tonnage race with the People’s Liberation
Rong-I Arthur Hong is a defense technology entrepreneur. He has served as a security and defense adviser for previous Taiwan presidential campaigns, an adjunct faculty member at the War College of Taiwan’s National Defense University and the Taiwan country assessor for Transparency International’s Government Defense Integrity Index.

A tactically appealing argument has been proposed recently that Taiwan should abandon its surface combatant tonnage race with the People’s Liberation