Arms and Related Business in Taiwan
by Brent Ayscough The Taiwanese are a lovely lot of people. They have a military defense, but they are fully aware that if the Mainland Chinese ever decide to take the country, the only thing they can do is to try to hold them off a short while until the US and others come to their rescue. Would the US do that? You might ask yourself, would our president actually declare war on Mainland China, or would he just talk tough with his “sanctions” idea. Dealing with the military in Taiwan over defense items is in part the subject of my story The Visitor. The arms merchant Baron Von Limbach has his office there. He sells to the Taiwan military, and to others. Money is very much the lingua franca. Deals for military equipment, aircraft, boats, and military related items are done with bribes of one kind or another. Apart from the bribes, the method of the dealings is also interesting. In the negotiations for som...