Ma, who has championed reconciliation with China in his nearly one year in office, described his foreign policy as "surprise-free and low-key."
But, speaking by video link with a Washington think-tank, Ma said Taiwan still needs arms including F-16 jet fighters along with design work for submarines.
These are good things to want. The air balance is being lost to China and Taiwan needs to have modern submarines, not the least to allow us to quietly intervene with our own submarines in the early days of a Chinese invasion.
