{"id":1925388,"date":"2023-05-05T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-fast-track-500m-military-package-to-taiwan-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T04:00:02","slug":"u-s-to-fast-track-500m-military-package-to-taiwan-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-fast-track-500m-military-package-to-taiwan-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US to expedite $500M military aid to Taiwan."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fu-s-to-fast-track-500m-military-package-to-taiwan-report%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=1925388&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--><h2>The United States Fast-Tracks $500 Million Military Aid Package to Taiwan<\/h2>\n<h3>Concerns Grow Over Chinese Aggression Against Island Nation<\/h3>\n<p>The Biden administration is reportedly fast-tracking a $500 million military aid package to Taiwan, using the same authority it relied on to expedite aid to Ukraine. The Defense Department will take from stockpiles of U.S. weapons and ammunition under the Presidential Drawdown Authority to give to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>This package would be the first sent to Taiwan using the drawdown authority, as the Biden administration looks to streamline U.S. aid to Taiwan due to assessments that China is undeterred in its ambition to retake the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act allocated $3 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/javelin-guided-missile-system-game-changer-for-ukraine\/\" title=\"Javelin guided missile system game changer for Ukraine\">annual military aid<\/a> to Taiwan, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin telling the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that the Pentagon intends to send $1 billion in aid to Taiwan with the Presidential Drawdown Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has already sent tens of billions of dollars-worth of aid to Ukraine using the fast-track authority since Russia\u2019s invasion last year. Between January 2022 to February 2023, the United States has committed nearly $80 billion in aid to Ukraine, with $48 billion of that aid being military, $4 billion being humanitarian, and $27 billion being economic.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington have grown strained in recent years, souring even further after a Chinese spy balloon was identified over Montana and floated across the continental United States in February before the U.S. military shot it down over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. and China have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-dem-group-on-defense-for-going-easy-on-ilhan-omar\/\" title=\"Jewish Dem Group on Defense for Going Easy on Ilhan Omar\">grown increasingly hostile<\/a>, China and Russia have made moves to strengthen their ties. The cooperation between Beijing and Moscow has fueled concern that the world is moving closer to broader instability and conflict.<\/p>\n<h3>Chinese Foreign Ministry Expresses &#8220;Strong Discontent&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>The Chinese foreign ministry called the balloon saga \u201ctotally accidental\u201d and expressed \u201cstrong discontent\u201d at the U.S. shooting down the spy apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn these circumstances, for the United States to insist on using armed force is clearly an excessive reaction that seriously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ratcliffe-shoots-down-claim-that-three-chinese-balloons-crossed-over-u-s-under-trump\/\" title=\"Ratcliffe Shoots Down Claim That Three Chinese Balloons Crossed Over U.S. Under Trump\">violates international convention<\/a>,\u201d Beijing said in a statement. \u201cChina will resolutely defend the legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise involved, and retains the right to respond further.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Broader Instability and Conflict<\/h3>\n<p>As China and Russia strengthen their ties, concerns are growing that the world is moving closer to broader instability and conflict. The cooperation between Beijing and Moscow has fueled these concerns, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to get the DailyWire+ app and stay up-to-date on the latest news.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is reportedly fast-tracking a $500 million military aid package to Taiwan as top officials grow concerned about the pace of Chinese aggression against the island nation. The Biden administration is planning to use authority that it has relied on to expedite aid to Ukraine, according to Bloomberg. The Defense Department will take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1925389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[20712,24426,7629,4505,9105],"class_list":["post-1925388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-expedite","tag-500m","tag-aid","tag-military","tag-taiwan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925388","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}