A defense ministry official has declined to shed light on reports that Taiwan may work with Israel to build military hardware.
The reports said that the two countries might cooperate in the area of submarine technology and in the building of indigenous Taiwanese warships.
Major General Po Hung-hui responded to questions at the legislature on Monday, but he declined to give any details.
“I think the defense ministry has always been dedicated to trying to build indigenous warships. It is the ministry’s main focus in its future development plans. As for how we’ll build the ships and with whom we’ll collaborate, we cannot comment before it the plans are actually underway," said Po, "The reason is [the plans] will contain [classified information about] our future troop deployments. So I’d like to ask members of the media to restrain from speculation before anything is concrete. ”