The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China. On Thursday Taiwan’s defence ministry announced its soldiers had shot down a Chinese drone over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands.
At a press conference on Thursday, Tsao, 75, said the Chinese Communist party (CCP) threat to Taiwan was growing. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, he pledged funds to train “three million people in three years”. Working with the island’s civilian defence organisation, the Kuma Academy, 60% of the funds would go towards building an army of “warriors”, and 40% to training another 300,000 in how to shoot.
but Taiwan already has mandatory military service? Though it wouldn’t surprise me if dudes never even touch a gun and just spend their conscription years cleaning toilets and driving their COs around town.
Oh yes, 14% of the population will definitely sign up to fight for this guy who to them is like, their neighbor’s boss’ boss. That’s just an insane fraction of the population to have in the military, on the same kind of scale as the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
i love private militias run by random billionaires we need more of those come on elon come on bezos what are y’all waiting for get to it
Ten dollars per guy seems suspiciously cheap
At that price, why don’t we have our own army?
Real “Enemy at the Gates” one rifle for two men vibe
It’s because Taiwan numbah one. You wouldn’t understand.
but Taiwan already has mandatory military service? Though it wouldn’t surprise me if dudes never even touch a gun and just spend their conscription years cleaning toilets and driving their COs around town.
The irony of this guy trying to have a low cost Guerilla army a la Viet Cong or the early PLA to fight against the CPC is lost to him, I guess.
Oh yes, 14% of the population will definitely sign up to fight for this guy who to them is like, their neighbor’s boss’ boss. That’s just an insane fraction of the population to have in the military, on the same kind of scale as the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.