{"id":257,"date":"2008-09-05T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-09-05T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:05:28","slug":"changes-in-defense-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Defense Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Mr. Ma&#8217;s spokesman described the relationship between Taiwan and China as one between two <b>regions<\/b>, not state-to-state, the head of the Defense Ministry announced that he would rename his organization the <i>Ministry of Regional Defense<\/i>, to be in line with his boss&#8217; policy.  &#8220;We are redesigning our new logo and we will also launch our new website at http:\/\/www.mrd.gov.tw soon,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;The first 100 visitors can fly free from any air base to China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also said that he would rewrite the air force&#8217;s rules of engagement to honor the protocol signed with International Olympic Committee (IOC) which addresses Taiwan\u2019s Olympic team as <i>Chinese Taipei<\/i>.  &#8220;Only fighter aircraft marked with CTAF (Chinese Taipei Air Force) are allowed to engage PLAAF (People&#8217;s Liberation Army Air Force) fighters in air combats,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;Furthermore, as a gesture to show mutual goodwill, we will let PLAAF fighters fire the first shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ctaf.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendition of an F-16 in the CTAF marking.\" \/><\/br>An artist&#8217;s rendition of an F-16 in the CTAF marking.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/disclaimer.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Mr. Ma&#8217;s spokesman described the relationship between Taiwan and China as one between two regions, not state-to-state, the head of the Defense Ministry announced that he would rename his organization the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}