Kaohsiung’s beaches need drone protection; vigilante groups went to Ke Zhien’s headquarters to appeal for support for the defense budget

The United Economic Democracy think tank will go to the KMT Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ke Zhien's campaign headquarters today (10th) to urge that Kaohsiung's red beaches need drone protection and ask Ke Zhien to "raise your hand" and support the additional national defense budget.

Ke Zhien was in the Legislative Yuan this morning, not at the Presidential Competition. In this regard, she emphasized in an interview yesterday (9th) that she personally supports the defense budget. As long as the money is spent wisely and beneficial to the country, everyone will definitely support it. He also emphasized that the regulations on the development of the drone industry proposed by Blue and White have been passed in the third reading, which is 30 billion more than the 210 billion of the Executive Yuan, which is 240 billion. They also hope to exclude some Chinese industrial chains and also hope that the Ministry of National Defense can purchase some very high-performance drones.

The Executive Yuan proposed a supplementary budget of 607.6 billion yuan for this year. The review process was completed by the Legislative Yuan committee last week. The government and the opposition are scheduled to complete the third reading on November 20. The United Economic Democracy think tank yesterday called on the eight Kuomintang legislators participating in the county and mayor elections to support the Ministry of National Defense’s supplementary budget. If the supplementary budget is not passed by the 20th or is cut or frozen, Jiang Qichen and other eight blue committee members should withdraw from the election directly.

This morning, Lai Zhongqiang, the convener of the Keminlian think tank, Chen Boyan, a researcher at the Keminlian think tank, Cheng Lingfang, a retired professor of the Gender Research Institute of Kaohsiung Medical University, and others went to the campaign headquarters of Ke Zhien and asked Ke Zhien to "raise your hand and support the supplementary budget for national defense and the supplementary budget for social welfare."

Chen Baiyan said that Ke Zhien's record of reviewing the national defense, maritime patrol and civil defense budgets is worrying. Ke Zhien and other Kuomintang legislators completely followed the footsteps of Fu Kunqi, Huang Guochang, Weng Xiaoling and Ma Wenjun to drastically cut and freeze the defense budgets of the Ministry of National Defense, the Coast Guard and the Civil Defense. A total of 8.4 billion yuan has been cut from the Ministry of National Defense budget, and nearly 90 billion yuan has been frozen.

He said that last week, the Legislative Yuan reviewed an additional defense budget of 145.7 billion yuan. A total of 6.67 billion yuan was deducted from three cases in the first round of review, and 1.06 billion yuan was frozen for six cases to be handled by the court. In the face of these defense budget proposals that have been reserved for processing by the court, he is worried that Ke Zhien will repeat the record of large deletions and arbitrary freezes in the 2025 budget review.

Lai Zhongqiang pointed out that Kaohsiung Linyuan Beach and Xizi Bay are the red beaches where the Chinese military and foreign military think tanks assess that the Chinese People's Liberation Army is most likely to launch a large-scale amphibious landing operation.

China has vigorously expanded its amphibious landing operations capabilities in recent years, but at this time, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan is still debating whether the budget for domestically produced drones should be included in the special budget, the 2026 supplementary budget, or the 2027 annual budget, which is worrying.

Lai Zhongqiang said that the Executive Yuan proposed an additional budget of 607.6 billion yuan for this year, of which 145.7 billion yuan is an additional defense budget, including a defense procurement budget of more than 55.8 billion yuan. In order to prevent Kaohsiung's red beaches from being invaded and to protect our beautiful homeland, we call on Ke Zhien to "raise a noble hand" and support the passage of the additional defense budget of 145.7 billion yuan.