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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
Central News Agency web site
Taipei, 20 October: The Ministry of National Defence warned Wednesday [20 October] that a war across the Taiwan Strait is likely to happen between 2010 and 2020 if Taiwan misses the chance to accept the offer from the United States of 18.23bn dollars in arms.
In a last-ditch effort to win the legislature's support for its request for a special budget to finance the purchase, the defence ministry said in a position paper that the acquisition of the arms, including submarines, …