Taiwan confirms $11 billion U.S. weapons sale; China condemns arms deal as ‘dangerous’
This piece, authored by Andrew Salmon for The Washington Times, quotes CSP Senior Fellow Grant Newsham.
SEOUL, South Korea — The Taiwanese government confirmed Thursday that the Trump administration is selling $11 billion worth of arms to the democratically governed island, including mobile and rocket artillery, anti-armor weapons and battlefield command-and-control systems.
The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense expressed “sincere gratitude” to the U.S. It noted in a statement on its website that the Trump administration has made a “notification to Congress” to process the sale. The State Department announced the arms sale late Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Trump.
The weapons sale is likely to anger the communist government of China, which regards Taiwan as part of its sovereign territory.
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