Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 6: The deputy chief of Taiwan’s defence ministry’s research and development branch was found dead in a hotel room on Saturday morning, according to the official Central News Agency. The cause of his death his still undetermined.
Ou Yang Li-hsing, the deputy chairman of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, which is owned by the military, was discovered dead in a hotel room in southern Taiwan early on Saturday, according to CNA. It stated that police and other authorities were investigating into the death’s cause.
Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of Taiwan defence ministry's research and development unit was found dead on Saturday morning in a hotel room, according to the official Central News Agency: Reuters
— ANI (@ANI) August 6, 2022
According to CNA, Ou Yang visited the southern county of Pingtung on a business trip. He was appointed to the position at the beginning of the year to oversee various missile production projects.
The news of death of top official comes amid the ongoing tensions between Taiwan and China over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
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China, on Wednesday, August 3, declared that it would stop exporting natural sand to Taiwan in response to Pelosi’s visit to the island. According to Libijian, the Consul General of China in Karachi, China also reportedly halted imports of citrus fruits, chilled white hairtail, and frozen horse mackerel from the Taiwan region as of Wednesday.
Nancy Pelosi travelled to Taiwan on Tuesday, August 2, despite repeated security warnings from Beijing. Beijing insisted that her visit violates both the terms of the joint communiqué between China and the US and the one-China principle. It said that the visit greatly jeopardises the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and sends the ‘separatist forces for Taiwan independence’ the wrong message.
