Submarine missiles and Taiwan's counterstrike options

Could submarines enable a surprise attack like Pearl Harbor or Taranto?

The reply turns to vertical-launch cells on Taiwanese submarines as a possible source of counterstrike capability.

The question concerns submarines as a means of surprise attack. The proposed response is to equip Taiwan's submarines with vertical-launch cells, giving them a counterstrike capability. The brief reply does not assess how much submarines would change the likelihood of an opening attack.