Approving a $2 billion US arms package for Taiwan
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted Reuters, according to the Pentagon, the United States has approved an arms sales package worth about $2 billion to Taiwan, which includes an advanced air defense system that previously It has been tested in Ukraine.
Despite the lack of official diplomatic relations with Taiwan and despite China’s anger, America has always provided arms to the island for what it called “self-defense”. continues.
China calls the island of Taiwan a part of its territory and considers the provocative actions of the United States, including supplying and selling weapons to this autonomous island, as a violation of the “One China” principle. In recent months and weeks, Beijing has tightened its siege ring around Taiwan and started a new round of military exercises around it. This is the second time after “La Chingte/William Lai” took office as the new president of the island of Taiwan that China is conducting a large-scale exercise around the island.
However, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced that the new arms sales package includes defense systems worth $1.16 billion, as well as radar systems worth about $828 million. It includes dollars.
Pentagon, without referring to China’s warnings and concerns about supplying weapons to Taiwan, claimed: This plan has improved the recipient’s security and will help maintain political stability, military balance and The economic development of the region will help!
According to the Pentagon, this package includes three surface-to-air (unassembled) missile systems and has previously been tested on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The Chinese government, which has called the new president of Taiwan a “separatist” and rejected his repeated requests for negotiations, responded to his statement yesterday, which claimed that “no power A foreigner is not able to change the destiny of Taiwan” he reacted and emphasized that there is no future for Taiwan’s independence. The future of Taiwan lies in the reunification with the motherland.
