More than 800 Chinese-made dash cams have been removed from military vehicles at Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense, Taiwan News reported on July 11.
In response to a request from Taiwanese opposition Kuomintang lawmaker Xiu Jiaoxin, who claimed that Chinese video recorders are installed in Taiwanese military vehicles, including those of senior officers, the ministry said that 800 cameras have already been removed and the rest are still being tested.
Xu Jiaoxin reported that the average purchase price of a registrar is $61. Chinese registrars can be purchased through the Taobao service for $9.5.
The supplier that won the tender to supply the army with recorders was blacklisted from public procurement on the same day the military placed the order.
Recall that the Armament Bureau of the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense has recorded the use of blacklisted Chinese-made devices in military projects.
The army’s photoelectronic projects saw the use of 128 voltage converters, routers and data readers. The equipment was produced in Chinese factories by German solar equipment supplier SMA Solar Technology, Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Delta Electronics Co, China’s Huawei and Taiwanese industrial computer manufacturer Advantech Co.
On the same day, Taiwanese People’s Party deputy Huang Guojiang reported on the use of Chinese equipment to harvest solar energy at military bases in Taiwan. According to him, the government, in implementing its concept of energy from renewable sources, allowed the emergence of a “fifth column of Beijing.”
The Defense Office said the Defense Department launched an investigation last month based on initial allegations by a lawmaker about the use of Chinese equipment at military bases. The work is complicated by the large amount of different equipment used at the bases.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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