{"id":1925696,"date":"2023-05-06T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-prepares-to-send-500-million-in-military-aid-to-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T13:46:24","slug":"u-s-prepares-to-send-500-million-in-military-aid-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-prepares-to-send-500-million-in-military-aid-to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send $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-prepares-to-send-500-million-in-military-aid-to-taiwan%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=1925696&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>Biden Administration Prepares $500 Million Weapons Package for Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration is reportedly preparing a $500 million weapons package for Taiwan, using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-fast-track-500m-military-package-to-taiwan-report\/\" title=\"US to expedite 0M military aid to Taiwan.\">fast-track authority<\/a> that it has relied on to speed arms to Ukraine. The package will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-prepares-to-send-500-million-in-military-aid-to-taiwan\/\" title=\"US to send 0M military aid to Taiwan.\">involve sending existing stockpiles<\/a> of US weapons or support equipment to Taiwan under what\u2019s known as a Presidential Drawdown Authority. This will allow the US to sidestep the often-lengthy process of contracting and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-irans-nuclear-transgressions-make-return-to-deal-harder\/\" title=\"State Department: Iran\u2019s Nuclear Transgressions Make Return to Deal Harder\">producing weapons<\/a>, which has resulted in a $19 billion backlog in armaments that have been approved but not yet delivered to Taiwan. Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">authorized<\/a> President Joe Biden to use as much as $1 billion in US inventory for the island democracy in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, and lawmakers have complained the administration has been slow to use that authority.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over China\u2019s Military Modernization<\/h3>\n<p>The Biden administration and its allies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-outraged-after-elite-nyc-school-shows-video-to-eighth-graders-of-white-women-being-ridiculed-for-being-white\/\" title=\"Parents Outraged After Elite NYC School Shows Video To Eighth-Graders Of White Women Being Ridiculed For Being White\">grown increasingly concerned<\/a> about the pace of China\u2019s military modernization and have warned that the country\u2019s leaders want its armed forces to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines have said they don\u2019t see an effort by China to seize Taiwan by force as imminent. The request is likely to anger China and cuts against President Joe Biden\u2019s effort to restore stability to contacts with Beijing. The administration has requested a meeting between Austin and his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu on the sidelines of the Shangri-La forum in Singapore in June. Most high-level communication stalled after an alleged Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental US in February.<\/p>\n<h3>Analyst Quote<\/h3>\n<p>Eric Sayers, a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said the money was \u201ca good start but I expect the Congress will push for the administration to use the full $1 billion they authorized.\u201d \u201cThis should be viewed as a good first step to use these new authorities to begin to expeditiously address shortfalls in cross-strait deterrence,\u201d Sayers added.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The move by the Biden administration to prepare a $500 million weapons package for Taiwan is likely to anger China and cuts against President Joe Biden\u2019s effort to restore stability to contacts with Beijing. However, the administration and its allies have grown increasingly concerned about the pace of China\u2019s military modernization and have warned that the country\u2019s leaders want its armed forces to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using a drawdown will let the US sidestep the often-lengthy process of contracting and producing weapons<\/li>\n<li>Congress authorized President Joe Biden to use as much as $1 billion in US inventory for the island democracy in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act<\/li>\n<li>The Biden administration and its allies have grown increasingly concerned about the pace of China\u2019s military modernization<\/li>\n<li>Most high-level communication stalled after an alleged Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental US in February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, this move should be viewed as a good first step to use these new authorities to begin to expeditiously address shortfalls in cross-strait deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Martin and Tony Capaccio 16 hrs ago (Bloomberg) &#8212; The Biden administration is preparing a $500 million weapons package for Taiwan, using a fast-track authority that it has relied on to speed arms to Ukraine, people familiar with the matter said. \u00a9 Bloomberg A Taiwanese flag flies during a Republic of China Armed Forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1aNoY5.img?h=630&amp;w=1200&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=t&amp;l=f&amp;f=jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[24426,7629,4505,9591,9105],"class_list":["post-1925696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-500m","tag-aid","tag-military","tag-send","tag-taiwan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1aNoY5.img?h=630&amp;w=1200&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=t&amp;l=f&amp;f=jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925696","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}