TAIPEI, March 16 – Taiwan will cut troops by about 16 per cent over the next five years, officials said on Monday, in part as a streamlining measure and in part in response to a perceived lower-level threat from political rival China.
The defence ministry will reduce Taiwan’s military police to a command centre under the army, part of a long-term effort to cut troops from a 1970s Cold War high of about 600,000 to 210,500 in 2014, going for quality over quantity, military sources said.
