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from the United States, favoring the purchase of Aegis-enabled vessels instead. Ku was critical of a separate plan to buy
Standard SM-II missiles for over NT$ 40 million each. In 2003, Ku published a book about his naval career and joined the Friends of the PFP. The next year, two members of the
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Republic of China's representative to the Netherlands in 1997. Chen Shui-bian assumed the presidency in 2000, and due to the friendship between Chen and Ku, it was speculated that Ku would accept an appointment as minister of defense in the Chen administration, a post that went to
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while serving as deputy defense minister between 1993 and 1994. As commander of the navy, a post he had assumed in 1994, Ku ended the
Advanced Combat System, a program devised in the 1980s by Taiwan to develop a smaller version of the American-made
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