U.S. approves selling Taiwan munitions worth $619 million

Add a zero and just give it to them. It’s worth it several times over.

Cha Ching is not a city in China (or Taiwan).

Taiwan has cited consistent delays in receiving weapons it has purchased.

I assume they paid the US dollars, and didn't get their weapons. If US want to support Taiwan, then give them weapons for free.

More profiteering off of arms via systematic destabilization/escalation of tensions in the region...not completely unlike what those with vested interests in the gun industry/NRA do in the US, and we all know the mess that's turned into.

my Taiwanese friend told me over 50% want to be part of China. He told me the rest apart from far right, just want life to go on as usual.

Then he is not in touch with how the majority really feel.

Taiwan is an indecent part of China.

No, Taiwan has been independent from China for over 70 years.

Fact. USA is forcing China to take control of their territory.

An empty fact-less statement.

China will gain massive amounts of US weapons and technology, making it impossible for USAs stated 2025 war with China.

More garbage.

Taiwan is and will remain independent. China will never rule Taiwan. Most people in Taiwan, and the numbers increase with every new generation, want nothing to do with China while it is ruled by the CCP. If China invades it will get the war China wants with the US. As shown by recent war game scenarios, both sides will lose huge amounts of forces, and China will not win. That may change in ten years with China's continued military buildup that seems unending.

Given that the legitimate government of China escaped to Taiwan many decades ago I would say that „China ist a part of Taiwan“

If the US is arming Taiwan, how can they complain about China arming Russia?

Strange prioritizing, that deal could have been postponed a little bit and instead given everything available to the Ukrainian military forces.

Raw BeerToday 04:05 pm JST

If the US is arming Taiwan, how can they complain about China arming Russia?

Well Taiwan is peaceful and is not in the middle of brutally invading their neighbor, while Russia is. If your unable to see the difference and understand it, then further discussion is pointless.

@Raw Bear

Fascist Russia is sitting on recently stolen territory and has an eye for more.

Let's hope Taiwan spends it on asymmetric capabilities that can inflict the maximum number of PLA and PLN casualties.

China (as in PRC) has never ruled Taiwan. The Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan until it was handed over to Japan after it's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War 1894/95. The Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China, which was an allied power in WWII. After WWII ended Japan handed Taiwan back to it;s rightful owner, the Republic of China, and has remained that way ever since.

The PRC (which cleverly calls ityself "China") ousted the ROC forces from the mainland and took power in 1949. The PRC,controlled by the CCP has never ruled Taiwan in it's history.

The PRC claim of "Reunification" is simply a cover for "Invasion and annexation". Although the ROC was ousted from te mainland 74/75 years ago the PRC is practicing the old Chinese custom of miezu 滅族 where not just the political enemy is killed but their entire families. This practice is found between Dynasty to Dynasty throughout Chinese history. It's the 21st century and time for the PRC to let go of such old instincts.

If the US is arming Taiwan, how can they complain about China arming Russia?

Guess you're still not clear on this whole aggressor-victim reality thing.

selling weapons, perfectly fine.

giving weapons, nope.

If the US is arming Taiwan, how can they complain about China arming Russia?

Well Taiwan is peaceful and is not in the middle of brutally invading their neighbor, while Russia is. If your unable to see the difference and understand it, then further discussion is pointless.

The US seems to want to provoke a war with China. China and Russia see that they are surrounded by Western forces. Further arming Taiwan will only make China feel threatened and cause them to react, just as Russia was provoked to react. Seems the US wants to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine, it will not end well for them.

If the US is arming Taiwan, how can they complain about China arming Russia?

I don’t know how much you dabble in history but generally once a country is declared independent then former ‘owners’ trying to reclaim that land is frowned upon by thinking folk.

The US seems to want to provoke a war with China.

Actually it is China that wants to provoke a war with the US.

China and Russia see that they are surrounded by Western forces.

Those two nations have to live in a world where democracy is the government of choice and free nations will outnumber them and be all around them. It is their choice to be despotic, it is not something chosen for them by democratic nations.

Further arming Taiwan will only make China feel threatened and cause them to react,

Yes, China will feel threatened by a small island nation of 24 million people while its military dwarf those of Taiwan. That makes complete sense, but only to China.

just as Russia was provoked to react.

Russia was provoked to act because Ukraine wanted a better future and to align with Western Europe to get it? Astounding. It is almost like you believe Ukraine should not have a choice in its own future.

Seems the US wants to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine, it will not end well for them.

It is China that wants to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine and the US attempts to stop that.

Some people can not recognize evil and help it along rather than oppose it. Taiwan is peaceful and that will only change if China attacks it. If China truly wants to encourage Taiwan to join it, then it will need to change and become democratic. It can do that peacefully without invading Taiwan. But it wont, it would rather the bloodshed of war than to change. Those in power are corrupted by a system that lets them keep it for life, why would they want to give that up with democratic elections? Despotic systems are the most corrupt on the planet.

By America's own official policy, Taiwan is the Chinese province of Taipei, not an independent country (and the US also voted into international law the declaration that Donetsk and Luhansk, though technically part of Ukraine, are not subject to Kiev's laws or international policies, but entitled to make their own laws, enter their own deals with foreign countries without needing approval from Kiev)

And, when and if China decides that the breakaway province of Taipei needs to be reunited, it won't need to 'invade' itself, all it will have to do is declare that the normal cabotage rules apply to it. Within a short period of time, the economy of Taipei would free fall to the level of the economy of Puerto Rico and the population will be demanding Beijing takes them in.

Peter14

No, Taiwan has been independent from China for over 70 years.

De facto, yes, but not de jure. If the US wants to arm Taiwan, they should first revise the "one China policy" that they signed under Nixon. But then, the lucrative use of cheap Chinese manufacture would go out of the window for US businesses.

Does it look like someone wants to have it both ways?

TaiwanIsNotChina

Fascist Russia is sitting on recently stolen territory and has an eye for more.

Can you remind us who violated the Minsk agreements? I guarantee that if the US invited Taiwan to join Nato and planned on putting US missiles there, the mainland Chinese government would forced to react. Just like the Russian government had to.

Can you remind us who violated the Minsk agreements?

Yes, Russia.

I guarantee that if the US invited Taiwan to join Nato *

The US does not invite any country to join NATO. That’s not how it works. A country applies to join, and if it reaches all the requirements and all the member states agree, it can join. Ukraine has never met the requirements (one of which is, having no border disputes).

Taiwan could never be a NATO member which is for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

The US seems to want to provoke a war with China. China and Russia see that they are surrounded by Western forces. Further arming Taiwan will only make China feel threatened and cause them to react, just as Russia was provoked to react.

As I am fond of saying, Russia and China are allegedly not animals that have to lash out at something that scares them. They are allegedly capable of language.

@Awa no Gaijin then why are countries lining up to buy these things, you say the US doesn’t have? Where are you getting your information from? Stay off the meds!

USA always selling what it doesn't have