Source: Global Network [Global Network Reporter Yin Yanhui] According to Taiwan's "United Daily News" report on February 17, not long ago, under the instructions of Taiwan's "national security" senior officials, Taiwan's "Coast Patrol Agency" was used to avoid confusion with main

Source: Global Network

[Global Network Reporter Yin Yanhui] According to Taiwan's "United Daily News" report on February 17, not long ago, under the instructions of Taiwan's "National Security" senior officials, Taiwan's "Coast Patrol Agency" to avoid confusion with mainland coast guard ships For this reason, it was ordered to change the existing text painting on the side of the coast patrol ship , and replace the existing "R.O.C COAST" Above the "GUARD", the eye-catching "TAIWAN" painting has been added. The new painting of the New Taipei Ship, Penghu Ship and other ships has been completed. In the future, more than a hundred large and small ships will use annual maintenance (planned renovation and maintenance work carried out every year) Opportunity, all "rights of name". Kuomintang "legislator" Chen Yixin expressed this, "I hope this move will not have ideological considerations." Jie Zhong, a senior assistant researcher at the Taiwan Policy Research Foundation, questioned, "This is an unnecessary step for the Coast Guard."

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"United Daily News" learned that although the internal decision-making of this ship "name rectification" policy was approved by the grassroots and reported upward, it was forwarded to the Chairman of the Marine Commission Li Zhongwei for approval by "Coast Patrol Administrator" Zhou Meiwu. Yes, it's "bottom-up", but in fact it's "top-down" that comes first with suggestions from senior "national security" officials.

reported that as early as 2005, Taiwan's "Coastal Patrol Agency" had designed a blue, white and red "T" ship side mark with the theme of "Protecting Taiwan" as an international identification.

In response to this matter, some netizens on the island said, "We engage in small actions all day long without doing real things!" "Will Taiwan's combat effectiveness increase in this way?"

Kuomintang "legislator" Chen Yixin said, " Coast Guard's ships currently have "R.O.C COAST" GUARD" painting logo has long been different from the side painting of mainland coast guard ships. Regarding the suggestion that it would be "confused" with mainland ships in law enforcement, he said that it was "unheard of" in the past such a long time. . Coast guard ships will encounter mainland coast guard ships, but only in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands. He does not think that Japanese Coast Guard ships will mistake Taiwan Strait patrol ships for mainland coast guard ships. Chen Yixin said, "I hope there will be no ideological considerations in this move."

Taiwan's "Coast Patrol Administration" ordered to change the existing text painting on the sides of coast guard ships. (Picture source: Taiwan's "United Daily News")

In response to Taiwan's Coast Guard's statement that the move was because it was often mistaken for the mainland coast guard, Jie Zhong, a senior assistant researcher at the Taiwan Policy Research Foundation, questioned on the 16th that the mainland coast guard The painting of the police ship has the simplified Chinese characters "China Coast Guard" plus English on the side, which is obviously different from the original traditional Chinese characters "Coast Patrol Department" plus English on the side of the Taiwan Strait patrol ship. It needs to be confirmed by Taiwan and China. The likelihood of misidentification by civilian ships or other areas should be very low.

Jie Zhong said that if it is necessary for a coast guard vessel to contact law enforcement vessels from other countries or regions when on duty, it should have identified itself through radio or other identification methods before entering visual distance, and it is less likely to be "mistakenly identified". Recognized as a mainland coast guard ship. The "Coast Patrol Office" is really suspected of being "unnecessary".

Lu Lishi, the former captain of the Taiwan Navy's Xinjiang warship, said on the 16th that the move by the "Coast Patrol Administration" may be related to the deployment of the first 5,000-ton large-scale maritime cruise rescue ship "Haixun 06" by the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration of the mainland in the Taiwan Strait.