Jiang Wanan threw the loose machine and moved it without warning. The reserve colonel ignored the national security search and rescue and lacked supporting facilities.

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan yesterday announced the Songshan Airport relocation plan without warning, advocating the transformation of about 300 hectares of land around the airport into an AI park, residential buildings and large parks. This unexpectedly "slaps in the face" the Kuomintang's New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan's political opinion of extending the Guangfu Line to Songshan just a few months ago. His motives and feasibility have been questioned by the outside world. In this regard, a former air force colonel criticized that the changes in Songzhi headquarters, air service headquarters and national army service were not approved by the central government, which was a clear neglect of the national security strategy.

In response to Chiang Wanan's idea of ​​relocating Songji, Taiwan's Secretary-General and Reserve Air Force Colonel Ma Yixiang analyzed that Songji's relocation has been discussed for a long time, but judging from the content of Chiang's political views, this plan did not take into account national defense readiness and national security. That is, Songji, as a shared airport for military and civilian use, has "military support and combat readiness" functions in addition to civil aviation transportation.

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He further explained that in addition to civil aviation transportation, Songji is also home to the Songshan Base Command of the Air Force (hereinafter referred to as the Songzhi Headquarters) and the Air Service Corps of the Ministry of Interior. The former has command support, military air transportation, emergency transportation, military-civilian coordination and backup capabilities during wartime. The latter is also responsible for search and rescue missions in the vast sea, air and land areas of northern Taiwan. The government is investing approximately 3.5 billion yuan to build a new shed factory, with the goal of allowing Black Hawk helicopters to station and strengthen search and rescue capabilities.

Although Songji is located in the heart of our country’s capital, in the face of China’s continued strengthening of joint blockade, precision strikes, and first-battle paralysis capabilities against Taiwan, whether it complies with the principles of decentralized deployment and combat power preservation deserves review; however, the relocation of existing military facilities, whether the original combat readiness tasks and support tasks can be connected, and the final decision to leave or stay should respect the Ministry of National Defense’s overall defense operations assessment and consult the Ministry of National Defense and the Air Force Command, rather than just “find another location” and simply pass it off.

Ma Yixiang bluntly said that while the Chiang Kai-shek government can accurately estimate the output value, employment population and land development benefits of AI parks, it has "no supporting discussion" on military facilities, search and rescue capacity, and alternative stations. It has not even coordinated with the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Interior in advance. "Such a policy plan obviously still has a lot of room for improvement."