(Washington Reuters) U.S. government sources revealed that mainland China held a military exercise around Taiwan to respond to the US House of Representatives Perlis to visit Taiwan.Military sales of Taiwan.
Reuters reports that both the Bayeng government and the United States have emphasized that they will continue to support Taiwan, and may announce that they are still in a "approval" state in the next few weeks or months.
A source who are familiar with the US military sales of the United States told Reuters that the United States focuses on maintaining Taiwan's current military system and fulfilling its existing orders, rather than providing new tensions that are more likely to exacerbate the Taiwan Strait.
One of the sources said that in order to prevent the occurrence of embargo, the United States may try to provide more ammunition, lower -order items, and supplies to Taiwan."The United States will try to sell to Taiwan not only weapons ... maybe more low -level supply such as ammunition."
Sources said that such military sales projects may be announced as soon as in September this year, which shows that Beijing's sealing exercise after visiting Taiwan in early August did not shake the United States' support for Taiwan.
The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to Reuters' comments.
Campbell, a coordinator of the White House Indian Affairs, was asked in a recent briefing whether the US government is considering two situations: mainland China ’s attack and sealed Taiwan.He said at the time that these two situations were "indeed incorporated into consideration" and said that the aim of the United States' sales against Taiwan to assist in "Taiwan's constant safe environment."
Since 2017, the U.S. government has approved a total value of US $ 18 billion (about S $ 25 billion), most of which were completed during the period of the Trump administration.Under the leadership of Biden, problems such as delayed delivery of US military sales weapons have been delayed.It is reported that this is because there are differences in weapon demand between Washington and Taipei.
Gemicks, chairman of the US House of Representatives, who visited Taiwan in early August with Pelosi, refused to comment on the announcement time or scope of any new military sales in an interview with Reuters.The speed of weapons was disappointed.
Ge Laiyi, director of the Asian Project of the Marshall Foundation in the United States, believes that the primary task of the US government seems to be a large number of weapons to ensure the delivery of previous backlogs.