Summary
President Joe Biden approved $571.3 million in military aid to Taiwan, reinforcing U.S. support amid increasing Chinese military pressure.
This package follows a $567 million aid approval three months ago and Taiwan’s recent acquisition of 38 Abrams tanks, its first new tanks in 30 years.
Taiwan expressed gratitude for the U.S.‘s security commitment while maintaining discretion on the aid’s specifics.
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has condemned U.S. arms sales and escalated military activities around the island, vowing not to renounce force for unification.
Likely.
Still needs to be said every time our money is spent on military boondoggles and not our own needs.
If China takes Taiwan, the US loses access to high end semiconductors completely or is beholden to China to obtain them. China is fighting a soft war against the US already.
I would have agreed with you with every conflict the US has been involved in in the last 50 years, but China and Russia are both direct existential threats to the Western world. Anyone who doesn’t recognize this is simply not well informed.
My entire life I’ve heard facsimiles of the arguments you’re making.
I never hear them in favor of helping people dying in ER waiting rooms here until an Italian goes off and kills a CEO.
Those stances aren’t mutually exclusive. Both arguments can be right at the same time.
If I’m wrong, tell me how. You don’t get to just ignore the facts because you don’t like them.
None of the other countries we attacked in the last 50 years (with possibly Afghanistan as the exception) were fighting soft wars against the US and actively prepping for a hot one. When someone’s actively punching you in the face, pacifism starts to lose its glow.
To be fair, the national security of Taiwan is pretty important; however, I would much rather this money come out of the US military’s ridiculous 900 billion budget.
Agreed. I’m guessing the war profiteers who keep Biden’s phone busy are doing the best they can to milk him before Trump takes office.