Taiwan reveals first domestically made submarine in defense milestone

By Carlos Garcia, Walid Berrazeg and Sarah Wu KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan unveiled its first domestically developed submarine on Thursday, a major step in a project aimed at strengthening the island's defence and deterrence against the Chinese navy, though it won't enter service for another two years. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has made the indigenous submarine program a key part of an ambitious project to modernise its armed forces as Beijing stages almost daily military exercises to assert its sovereignty. President Tsai Ing-wen, who initiated the plan when she ...