Taipei, June 22 -- Taiwan's first indigenous submarine, Hai Kun (Narwhal), has become the latest target of China's intensifying disinformation war, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) scrambles to undermine Taiwan's growing military self-sufficiency and indigenous defence capabilities, as reported by Focus Taiwan.

Following Hai Kun's initial sea trials on June 17, fake social media accounts and CCP-aligned media outlets rapidly circulated manipulated claims that the submarine showed signs of hull deformation, a false narrative that Taiwanese defence officials have firmly debunked.

Taiwan's state-owned shipbuilder CSBC Corp. clarified that the so-called "deformation" was, in fact, a sonar dome, a standard, deliberate design feature that...