🇺🇸🤝🇹🇼 — 📰 CNN News: US approves first-ever military aid to Taiwan through program typically used for sovereign nations
— "The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday.

The package – which is part of the State Department’s foreign military financing (FMF) program – totals $80 million and will be paid for by US taxpayers.

“FMF will be used to strengthen Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities through joint and combined defense capability and enhanced maritime domain awareness and maritime security capability,” the department wrote in its notification to Congress that was reviewed by CNN."

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https://archive.is/m4NPj

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸🇹🇼 — 📰 PRC State Media, Global Times on August 25, 2023 on Twitter/X:
— "The US’ arms sales to the island of Taiwan are malicious actions that interfere with China’s internal affairs, violating the one-China principle and the China-US Three Joint Communiques, threatening the safety of people in the island and cross-Straits stability.

China firmly opposes this latest sales and has lodged solemn representation to the US, Zhang Xiaogang, spokesperson for the National Defense Ministry, said."

https://archive.is/wip/4pBXm
🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇼 — 📰 Focus Taiwan: Unprovoked attack on Taiwan to trigger 'resolute reaction': U.S. lawmaker

— "U.S. Representative Robert Wittman said that "any hostile, unprovoked attack on Taiwan will result in a resolute reaction from the United States," during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) at the Presidential Office in Taipei Friday.

Wittman, a Republican who serves as vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told Tsai that the U.S. would do "everything possible" to ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and it was committed to building up and projecting strength in the region.

"Strength is the best deterrence to anyone that may think there's an opportunity to act badly in this region," said Wittman, who arrived in Taiwan on Thursday night."

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https://archive.is/l18OC