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US Announces $345 Million in Unprecedented Military Aid for Taiwan

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/07/30/us-announces-345-million-in-unprecedented-military-aid-for-taiwan/

US OKs First-Ever Foreign Military Financing Arms Package for Taiwan

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/08/30/us-oks-first-ever-foreign-military-financing-arms-package-for-taiwan/

“This severely violates the one-China principle and the stipulations of the three China-U.S. joint communiques,” ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters in Beijing on Thursday. “China deplores and firmly opposes it.”

In explaining the change, two U.S. officials said: “The United States has provided Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Taiwan for years. FMF simply enables eligible partner nations to purchase U.S. defense articles, services, and training through either FMS or, for a limited number of countries, through the foreign military financing of direct commercial contracts (FMF/DCC) program.” The officials were not authorized to comment publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.

“In the face of increasingly aggressive People’s Republic of China military actions in the (Taiwan) Strait, the United States must move quickly to provide support for Taiwan’s defense,” said Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Cry harder Xi, you can whine all you want but Taiwan is independent and always will be. Nobody wants to be a part of your genocidal authoritarian regime.

[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org -1 points 1 year ago

Taiwan is not recognised as an independent country by much of the world nor even the United Nations. It undergoes extraordinary naming contortions just to participate in events and institutions like the Olympic Games and the World Trade Organization.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38285354

Jimmy made video on it:

Taiwan Voters Choose China Over Independence!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQKtqGYc4Y

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