UPI.com:

Taiwan’s defense ministry publicly disclosed plans to build a high-altitude ballistic missile defense network in cooperation with the United States, according to a local press report.

United Daily News reported on Monday that the Taiwanese government is planning to build a new missile defense system to counter China’s ballistic missile threats. The Chinese missiles the system would counter include the Dongfeng-17, a Chinese solid-fueled road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile; the Dongfeng-21, a two-stage, solid-fuel rocket, also known as the “carrier killer”; and the Dongfeng or DF-100, which was first unveiled in 2019.

According to Taipei’s military, the United States’ Integrated Air and Missile Defense system is included in a “U.S.-Taiwan air defense exchange” agreement. The alleged agreement has been an important source of military cooperation between the two countries, the defense ministry said.

The report also said “military exchanges” with the United States have helped Taiwanese troops improve their surveillance, early warning and command-and-control capabilities by expanding “security cooperation” in the Indo-Pacific region…

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