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Congress seeks to arm Taiwan quickly as China threat grows
« on: November 15, 2022, 07:21:50 am »
Congress seeks to arm Taiwan quickly as China threat grows
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Mindful of lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Congress is pushing to arm and train Taiwan in advance of any potential military attack by China, but whether the aid materializes could depend on President Biden himself.

Deliberations on an unprecedented package of billions of dollars in military assistance to the self-governing island democracy come as Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Bali on Monday, with maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait a top item of discussion.

The bipartisan effort would enable the U.S. military to dip immediately into its own stocks of weapons such as Javelins and Stingers — something done at this scale only for Ukraine, officials said — and provide weapons for the first time to Taiwan through the foreign military financing program, paid for by the United States.

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Re: Congress seeks to arm Taiwan quickly as China threat grows
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2022, 07:27:40 am »
Just what do they plan to use to accomplish this worthy goal?  They've already given a large chunk of our military stores to Ukraine, to the point we are being endangered in our own defense.  Add a shortage of military weapons to the shortage in our strategic oil reserve and we are in trouble.  Give more to another country and we wouldn't be able to stop an invasion by Tibet! :facepalm2:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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