The picture shows the high school students under the guidance of the instructor, taking a military training class to carry out gun drills. (Taiwan's "China Times" material**).
According to Taiwan's "China Times", in order to enhance the national disaster prevention energy and strengthen the resilience of civil disaster prevention and relief, the administrative agency of the Taiwan authorities plans to promote the establishment of the so-called "civil autonomous emergency response team", which is expected to set up 320 teams with 8,000 people. In other words, in five years, there will be "autonomous emergency response teams" of about 25 people per team in Taiwan. However, because of the grim military relations between the two sides of the strait and the fact that the new term "autonomous emergency response team" has been coined, it is easy for people to associate and misunderstand the concept of urban warfare.
Nervous, any wind and grass, the people will have doubts. Not to mention, the Tsai Ing-wen authorities last year asked the local government to cooperate with the registration list and plan to mobilize students over the age of 16 to participate in various wartime duties, which caused the controversy of the "Child Soldier Combat Group", and parents were most worried that their children would be sent to the front line at a young age and become cannon fodder on the battlefield.
For this reason, the education department of the Taiwan authorities has come forward to clarify that the current "Civil Defense Law" in the Taiwan region stipulates that high school and above must form a protective regiment to assist in ambulance, firefighting, and other tasks, and that students at or above the high school level should participate in the duty plan and have no doubts about participating in the war.
Since it is a protection regiment and there are various civil defense organizations in the civil sector, why did the Taiwan administrative agency create an "autonomous emergency response team" and plan to have 320 teams? According to the policy report of Taiwan's administrative organs, it is to train communities, enterprise organizations, medical institutions, regional non-governmental organizations, village civil defense sub-groups, schools and other organizations throughout Taiwan to meet local needs. The question is who will train the "response team"? What is the difference between a "response team" and a general civil defence organization or a school protection group? It should be made clear.
The current situation in the Taiwan Strait, the most important thing to deal with is to ease the situation, disaster prevention and civil defense is what Taiwan does on weekdays, and it is also what it should do, and now, the most important thing for the authorities to do is to establish trust and peace between the two sides of the strait, rather than preparing for war, and what they do is the worst plan, which is putting the cart before the horse. One example of this is the "Autonomous Emergency Response Team" that has been misunderstood by the outside world as preparing for a town war.
At a time when the military confrontation between the two sides of the strait is severe, and the military has exercised a high degree of restraint in order to avoid misfire, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is worrying. [*Huaxia Graticule].