According to Taiwan's United News Network on January 9, the defense department of the Taiwan authorities issued a Taiwan-wide alert on the 9th, pointing out that the mainland launched a satellite to fly over the southern part of Taiwan, and the word "satellite" is translated as "missile" (missile) in the English version of the alert. Chen Chaoming, a professor at the University of Science and Technology, said that if it is a satellite, there is no need to issue an alarm at all. The English name of the satellite is satellite, and the English name of the rocket carrying the satellite is rocket, and the warning is misworded, and serious errors occur, which are easy to cause panic among the people.
Chen Chaoming also questioned: "Is it a political operation?"Otherwise who are you trying to scare?”
According to Taiwan's United News Network on January 9, Zhang Sigang, the candidate of the Kuomintang Taipei Citizen Congress, criticized that in 2023, the mainland will launch satellites over Taiwan at least three times, and none of them will receive an air defense alert;Now they have received the alert, and the alert is made in Chinese by satellite and English in missile, and foreigners really think that the mainland has launched a missile when they see it. Zhang Sigang bitterly criticized the authorities for creating panic.
The United News Network also reported that in response to the continuous warnings received by the public on the afternoon of the 9th due to the launch of satellites from the mainland, Hou Youyi, a candidate of the Kuomintang, said that the process of the whole incident has highlighted extremely serious security problems, and if this causes a miscalculation, how serious will it be to cause a crisis?The security services should investigate and reveal the truth within 24 hours.
Hou Youyi said that when questioned by the legislature, Chen Chien-jen, responsible person of the administrative organ of the Taiwan region, immediately claimed that the mainland had "fired the missile," but later changed his story and said that it was a slip of the tongue, and the defense department of the Taiwan authorities also issued an apology statement.
In addition, according to Taiwan's China Times News Network on January 9**, the defense department of the Taiwan authorities suddenly issued a Taiwan-wide alert on the 9th, warning the mainland for launching a satellite and flying over the southern part of Taiwan, and the English version of the alert even wrote the satellite as missile, causing the public to be frightened.
In this regard, netizens have said, "** is really testing the intelligence of the Taiwanese people, before the cross-shore missiles had to be reminded by Japan to know, but this time the cross-shore satellite can be crazy alarm 4 times" "There was also a launch a few days ago, if we don't want to sell dried mangoes (a sense of national loss), or our air defense warning is really bad."
Taiwan's United News Network also reported on 9 January that the defense department of the Taiwan authorities issued several alerts to civilians on the afternoon of 9 January, warning that mainland satellite rockets were passing over southern Taiwan, but the English version of the alert named the satellite "missile" (missile). The defense department of the Taiwan authorities said that it apologized to the public for negligently failing to update the wording of the original system and accurately express that the launch was a satellite rather than a missile.