(Washington Composite Electric) The U.S. government plans to formally require Congress to approve a military sales case of about $ 1.1 billion (about S $ 1.53 billion).Missile.
US online media Politico Monday (August 29) quoted sources that the military sales case is still in the early stage, including 60 fish fork anti -ship missiles with a total value of about 355 million US dollars, a total value of about 8570100,000 US dollars of AIM-9 sound-tail snake air-to-air missiles, as well as extended surveillance radar contracts worth $ 650 million.
After the Bayeng government issued a formal notice, the Democratic Party and Republican members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the two House of Representatives will sign an effect, and this military sales case will be considered the procedure.
It is reported that members of the United States Parliament are likely to approve the military sales, but because the US Congress is still resting, the entire signing process may be delayed.
Bayeng's largest pair of military sales cases since taking office
A spokesman for the National Security Council refused to respond detailed responses to Bloomberg's inquiry, only to say that the United States will continue to fulfill the responsibilities stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Law and support Taiwan's self -defense.A spokesman for the State Council said that before the government officially informed Congress, the State Council has never criticized any national defense forces.
This will be the largest amount since the US $ 2.4 billion reached in October 2020, and it is also the largest case of Taiwan ’s military sales since Biden’ s president.The US politics has always called for Biden to speed up its weapons to Taiwan to prevent Mainland China from moving against Taiwan and avoid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Taiwan just proposed last week to increase the military expenditure next year by nearly 14 %.
Reuters reports that sources familiar with the United States who are familiar with the US military sales of Taiwan said that military sales focus on maintaining Taiwan's military systems and fulfilling existing orders, and it is not providing military equipment that is more likely to exacerbate the tensions on both sides of the strait.
Beijing refers to the United States has threatened security
Nevertheless, the United States may attract Beijing for protest against Taiwan's military sales.Beijing pointed out that the United States has pose a threat to Taiwan's military sales and violates the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
Recently, China has continued to send warships and planes to the Taiwan Strait.After the US House of Representatives Perosi visited Taiwan in early August, mainland China launched a large -scale military exercise around Taiwan, including the first missile flying over Taiwan.
