Taiwan says no plan to deploy missiles to Taiping Island

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense says Taipei has no plan to deploy surface-to-air missiles to Taiping Island in the Spratly Islands chain.

Taiping Island and Zhongzhou Reef ISS
By NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The Liberty Times quoted an anonymous official as saying that Taiwan intends to follow China’s footsteps in deploying air defense missile systems in South China Sea.