Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for meeting again with us, Ambassador. It's always good to see you.
With lessons learned from the war in Ukraine and Russia's invasion, I know that Taiwan is taking this to heart and looking at what needs to happen for Taiwan to deal with Chinese aggression from Beijing. We were very impressed with the indigenous military equipment that Taiwan has already been able to build. You mentioned last session about the fighter jets that you guys were able to test and get into production in 500 days. We saw your capabilities with air defence, as well as with missile systems. You have your own homebuilt warships.
Looking at the daily reports that come in and geopolitical updates in the region, when you hear about 55 PLA aircraft flying around Taiwan, and then on top of that, Beijing sends multiple naval ships into your economic zone, what are you doing to counter the subsurface threat? We always talk about air and we talk about on the water, but I'm sure with the proliferation of submarines that China has been building over the last decade, you guys haven't forgotten about that either.