President Lai vows to advance Taiwan’s defense resilience

2025/03/31

President Lai Ching-te said March 27 that Taiwan is committed to enhancing its self-defense capabilities and forging robust civic defense resilience to cope with the ongoing challenges of large-scale disasters and authoritarian expansion.
 
Lai made the remarks at the third meeting of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee in Tainan City, southern Taiwan.
 
The president first praised a drill held by the Ministry of the Interior and Tainan City Government earlier in the day, which included tsunami evacuation warnings and exercises to handle unidentified explosions in critical infrastructure, hospital system cyberattacks and social security riots resulting from cognitive warfare.
 
The drill will enable the government to evaluate progress on civilian dispatch and response, resource integration of neighboring cities and counties, and disaster prevention collaboration, he said. It also provided an opportunity for central and local authorities to adjust their strategies ahead of the 2025 Urban Resilience Exercises to be held by the Ministry of National Defense’s All-Out Defense Mobilization Agency starting April 10 around the country, he added.
 
According to Lai, strengthening whole-of-society resilience is a core policy of countries worldwide and is key to ensuring social stability and continued national development. He also cited an international workshop held under the Global Cooperation and Training Framework earlier this month in Taipei City as evidence of the country’s related exchanges with its allies and like-minded partners.
 
Taiwan is committed to sharing its experience while working with democracies from around the world to consolidate global democratic resilience and maintain regional peace and stability, he added.


Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)