Coast Guard Administration, Ocean Affairs Council

The Taiwan Micron wafer fab union said it would move to further action if the company's board fails to produce concrete proposals and planned to advise employees to take leave and rally on Ketagalan Boulevard on October 19.

The Labor Ministry said the vote reflected employees' expectations for a fair profit-sharing mechanism and urged the company to put forward a workable plan vowing to help facilitate talks alongside the Taiyuan city government and the Central Taiwan Science Park administration.

Micron said it respects workers' rights and will keep communicating, as the dispute over bonuses and dividends comes despite the memory chipmaker's surging AI-driven revenue.

Now to defense developments.

Taiwan's Coast Guard administration showcased its new unmanned air and sea systems on Tuesday ahead of the National Day Parade, with Ocean Affairs Council Minister Kuan-Bi Ling revealing that the first batch of VBAT ship-launched drones purchased from U.S. firm Shield AI has arrived in Taiwan.

The systems were bought under a $1.2 billion New Taiwan Dollar program covering six systems and 12 VBAT aircraft.

Kuan and National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu inspected the equipment at Taipei Port, where the Jump 20 vertical takeoff drone and an unmanned surface vessel were displayed alongside assault boats, radar and thermal imaging vehicles.

So there was a Chinese research vessel in Taiwanese water.

The Taiwanese Coast Guard came up and was like, hey, leave.

They refused to.

So Taiwan sprayed them with a water cannon.

No, in Chinese water, it's okay.

But Taiwanese spraying Chinese ships in Chinese waters because Taiwan belongs to China?

It should be okay because the Taiwanese Coast Guard belongs to China and it's Chinese water, so they should be able to do whatever they want.

So

This is outright disinformation.

Si Ching-Chin, Deputy Director General of Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration, said in Mandarin, according to a translation.

Lieutenant General C. Jai Shing, deputy chief of the General Staff for Intelligence at Taiwan's Defense Ministry, dismissed Beijing's claims about having successfully imposed a blockade on Taiwan through the drills.

The blockade, in reality, never actually took place, C. said in Mandarin, according to a translation.

So we have to continue to be vocal about this.

And there are some videos out there that I saw of the Taiwanese Coast Guard going out.

And I can't tell from the video how far apart they are, maybe 300 or 400 yards.

But Taiwanese Coast Guard's going out there and firmly saying, like, you're encroaching in our waters.

So this is tiresome as well, having to continually do this.

Yeah, it's true, especially when the Taiwanese Coast Guards could be severely outnumbered by the Chinese Coast Guards.

And so, yeah, this is a really worrying trend.

But the only thing...