Taiwan policy makers prepared three types of defence policy documents since 1992:
- National Defense Reports (NDR) published by the Ministry of National Defence (MND) with the nterval of two years (1992-2017).
- National Security Report (NSR) published by the National Security Council (2006, revised in 2008).
- Quadrennial Defense Reviews (QDR) published by the Ministry of National Defence every four years, within 10 months after each presidential inauguration (2009-2017).
Quadrennial Defense Review (2009-2013)
- 2009 Quadrennial Defense Review (PDF, 6 MB)
- 2013 Quadrennial Defense Review (PDF, 57 MB)
- 2017-quadrennial-defense-review (PDF, 17 MB)
National Defense Report (1992-2013)
- 1992 National Defense Report (PDF, 76 MB)
- 1993-1994 National Defense Report (PDF, 31 MB)
- 1996 National Defense Report (PDF, 34 MB)
- 1998 National Defense Report (PDF, 31 MB)
- 2000 National Defense Report (PDF, 27 MB)
- 2002 National Defense Report (PDF. 36 MB)
- 2004 National Defense Report (PDF, 44 MB)
- 2006 National Defense Report (PDF, 53 MB)
- 2008 National Defense Report (PDF, 64 MB)
- 2011 National Defence Report (PDF. 17 MB)
- 2013 National Defense Report (PDF, 110 MB)
- 2015 National Defense Report (PDF, 105 MB)
- (NEW) 2017 National Defense Report (PDF, 30 MB)
National Security Report (2006, 2008 revision)
- 2006 National Security Report (2008 revision) (PDF, 22 MB)
First two QDRs and seven out of 12 NDRs were published while Kuomintang (KMT) was in power during terms of Presidents Lee Teng-hui (1988-2000) and Ma Ying-jeou (2008-2016). The rest was published during two terms of President Chen Shui-bian (2000-2008) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Documents from 2017 were published under Tsai Ing-wen’s administration (DPP).
Note: Most of the documents (prior to 2008) are scans of hard-copy originals and at the moment it is not possible to search within those files. However, current versions will be soon eventually replaced with files with OCR functionality.
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