TAIPEI - In the event of an invasion of Taiwan, the island would have the protection of a mythical sea monster as powerful as it is massive.
This, at least, is the image projected in the naming of Taiwan’s first domestically built submarine “Hai Kun”, after a gigantic fish of lore that can take to the skies.
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