{"id":1565111,"date":"2022-07-21T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565111"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:20:17","slug":"fmr-defense-secy-esper-says-us-needs-to-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-defense-secy-esper-says-us-needs-to-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr Defense Secy Esper says US needs \u2018to do better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffmr-defense-secy-esper-says-us-needs-to-do-better%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2282332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2282332\" class=\"wp-image-2282332 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP20288502226334.jpg\" alt=\"Defense Secretary Mark Esper meets with South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo\/Kevin Wolf)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP20288502226334.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP20288502226334-314x210-1.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP20288502226334-654x437-1.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP20288502226334-768x513-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2282332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defense Secretary Mark Esper meets with South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo\/Kevin Wolf)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 2:13 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 21, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US needs to do a better job in approving arms sales to Taiwan. Esper made the remark on Thursday in Taiwan after recently meeting with Taiwan\u2019s president and also said he would relay the island\u2019s concern to Washington D.C. Taiwan has expressed frustration over the speed of weapons deliveries as China has ramped up military pressure on the island. Some of the weapons on Taiwan\u2019s wish list are javelin-anti tank missiles and stinger anti-aircraft missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The missiles are in great demand in Ukraine where they have been keeping Russian aircraft at bay, but US supplies have shrunk and producing more of the anti-aircraft weapons has faced significant hurdles due to limited manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"main__right\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div class=\"main__row row\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div class=\"row__details details\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div data-v-59caeb6e=\"\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div data-v-59caeb6e=\"\">\n<div data-v-59caeb6e=\"\">\n<div class=\"details__body body\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div data-v-6ad82120=\"\">Esper visited Taiwan under the auspices of the Atlantic Council think-tank where he had meetings with senior leaders, including President Tsai Ing-wen. He said he did not get the sense Taiwanese officials were frustrated at what arms were on offer from Washington.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-v-59caeb6e=\"\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div data-v-59caeb6e=\"\">\n<div data-v-59caeb6e=\"\">\n<div class=\"details__body body body--next\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div class=\"paywalled-content\" data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div data-v-6ad82120=\"\">\n<div class=\"Raw-slyvem-0 bCYKCn\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t pick up any frustration other than the speed at which we conduct arms sales,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great meetings yesterday in Taipei. Looking forward to today\u2019s sessions with President Tsai, Defense Minister Chiu, and Foreign Minister Wu on how to strengthen US-Taiwan relations and readiness in face of growing PRC threats to our shared interests and free &#038; open Indo-Pacific. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFrLpc9SRW\">https:\/\/t.co\/bFrLpc9SRW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Mark T. Esper (@MarkTEsper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkTEsper\/status\/1549177483613949952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"Raw-slyvem-0 bCYKCn\">\n<p>The United States is bound by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, but has also been prodding the government to focus more on asymmetric warfare. This is where a smaller force employs unconventional tactics against a larger enemy using more mobile weapons to make the island harder to attack, something Tsai has said she is prioritizing. Esper said Taiwan was never going to be able to match China in terms of conventional power and Taiwan should be studying how Ukraine has fought Russia using asymmetric strategies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shortly after NATO officially named China an enemy target, its in-house think tank (Atlantic Council) just sent a delegation to Taiwan including former Defense Sec. Mark Esper, who declared that Americans must be &#8220;educated&#8221; into accepting a newly overt war posture against China: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fLB1kasQyB\">pic.twitter.com\/fLB1kasQyB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtracey\/status\/1549949459886481408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He believes Taiwan is concerned about supply chain issues affecting the delivery of arms.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/report-25m-people-trafficked-over-past-year\/\">Report: 25M People Trafficked Over Past Year<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Mark Esper meets with South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo\/Kevin Wolf) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 2:13 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 21, 2022 Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US needs to do a better job in approving arms sales to Taiwan. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}