{"id":1985078,"date":"2023-07-28T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-set-to-announce-massive-weapons-package-for-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:03:59","slug":"us-set-to-announce-massive-weapons-package-for-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-set-to-announce-massive-weapons-package-for-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"US to unveil huge weapons deal for 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%2Fus-set-to-announce-massive-weapons-package-for-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=1985078&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>\n<h2>The United States to Provide Military Assistance \u200dto Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p>The United States is expected to announce as early as \u200bFriday that it will provide <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> with military assistance worth more than $300 million, two U.S. officials\u2063 told\u2063 Reuters,\u200d a move likely\u2063 to anger China.<\/p>\n<p>Congress authorized up to $1 billion worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority weapons \u2064aid for <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> in the 2023 budget.<\/p>\n<p>One \u2063official, \u2064speaking on\u2064 the \u200dcondition anonymity, said the \u200dpackage \u200cis expected to be worth\u200c around $330 \u200bmillion.<\/p>\n<p>The White House \u200bdeclined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The formal announcement is not expected to include a list of\u2063 weapon systems being provided.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200drecent weeks,\u2062 four sources \u200csaid the package\u200b was expected to include four unarmed \u200cMQ-9A reconnaissance drones, but noted their\u200d inclusion could fall through as officials work through details on removing some of the\u2062 advanced \u200cequipment from the drones that only the U.S. Air Force is allowed access to.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u200bissue was who would pay \u200bfor the alterations to the drones, one \u2062of the people\u2063 briefed on\u2062 the \u200dmatter said. Reuters could not determine \u200cif the drones were still \u2063part of the package.<\/p>\n<p>The Taipei Economic and Cultural \u2064Representative Office in the United States did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> had previously \u2064agreed to purchase four, more\u200c advanced, MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, made \u200dby General Atomics, which are slated for delivery in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>China \u2064views democratically governed \u2063 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> as its own territory and has increased\u2064 military pressure on the island over the \u200bpast three years. \u2064It has never\u200b renounced the use of force to \u2062bring \u200bthe island under\u200d its \u2062control. <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> strongly rejects Chinese sovereignty claims and says only <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span>ese people can \u200cdecide their future.<\/p>\n<p>Foreshadowing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-threatens-to-recoup-arizonas-coronavirus-relief-funds-over-mask-rules\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Threatens to Recoup Arizona's Coronavirus Relief Funds over Mask Rules\">upcoming aid<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on May 16 told a Senate panel: \u200b&#8221;And I&#8217;m pleased that the United States will \u200dsoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-set-to-announce-massive-weapons-package-for-taiwan\/\" title=\"US to unveil huge weapons deal for Taiwan.\">provide significant \u200badditional \u2064security assistance<\/a> to <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> through\u200b the \u200dPresidential Drawdown Authority that Congress authorized last\u200b year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the top U.S. general said the United States and its allies need to speed \u200cup the \u200bdelivery of weapons to <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> in the coming years to help the island defend \u2064itself.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has repeatedly demanded the United States, <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span>&#8216;s most important arms supplier, halt the sale of weapons to the \u2062island.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army General Mark Milley,\u2064 chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had said <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> needed weapons like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-strikes-back-at-syria-after-missile-defense-shield-fails\/\" title=\"Israel Strikes Back At Syria After Missile Defense Shield Fails\">air defense systems<\/a> and those that could target ships\u200d from\u2063 land.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> has \u200csaid its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">defense spending<\/a> \u2062this \u2064year will focus on preparing weapons and equipment for\u200d a &#8220;total blockade&#8221; by\u2063 China, including parts for \u200bF-16\u200b fighters and \u2062replenishing weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) has been\u2062 used on an \u200demergency basis to expedite \u2063security \u200dassistance to Ukraine by allowing the president to\u2064 transfer articles and services \u200bfrom U.S. stockpiles. The <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> PDA, however, is a non-emergency authority approved by Congress last year.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taiwan<\/span> has complained of\u2062 delays \u2064to U.S.\u2063 weapon \u200ddeliveries, such as Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, as \u200dshipments from U.S. stockpiles\u2063 moved to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by \u200dMike Stone and Idrees Ali; editing by Chris Sanders, Deepa \u200cBabington and Lincoln Feast.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>condition of anonymity, stated that the announcement could come as soon as Friday, revealing that the United States plans to offer Taiwan military assistance exceeding $300 million. This decision, authorized by Congress, is expected to provoke China&#8217;s displeasure, as it falls within the $1 billion Presidential Drawdown Authority weapons aid allocated for Taiwan in the 2023 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1985079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/1985078","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}