Source: United Daily

Author: Tang Shaocheng

On December 23, US President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Law in FY2023. Its annual budget was $ 858 billion, including supporting military aid budgets for Taiwan and other countries.The US dollar's unpaid military aid to support Taiwan against mainland China.

The comprehensive appropriation bill passed by the US Congress on that day, although it does not include unpaid military aid for Taiwan, but the funding bill authorizes the US State Department to provide a military financing of up to 2 billion US dollars in military financing.The unpaid military aid still includes at least four million US dollars in continuous injection. It is applied to the "Global Cooperation and Training Architecture" (GCTF), providing "foreign military financing" (FMF) loans, and regulating the US -Association's funding in the Taiwan Association in the Taiwan Association can be used in "Taiwan Student Program.Although there is a source of expenditure, there will be no funds in the first year.

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The Law Law also requires the Bayeng government to solve the problem of delay in military sales, accelerate the military sales of Taiwan, and require the administrative department to strengthen military cooperation and training with Taiwan, authorize the US presidentTaiwan's specific non -NATO allies are equally treated, so they can give priority to obtaining over -defense of US defense materials.

In fact, before the announcement of the appropriation committee, members of the committee hoped to provide loans to Taiwan to reduce budget pressure, but members of the Foreign Committee and Taiwan hoped to fight for unpaid military aid.A few days ago, the President of the Democratic Committee of the Senate Democratic Party, Mean Dez, and other two -party committees of the two hospitals, and the two -party members of the two hospitals publicly stated publicly that in the funding bill, at least 500 million US dollars of military aid to Taiwan, as well as authorized presidents to use the "presidential appropriation right right right", The inventory of the Ministry of National Defense misappropriated a $ 1 billion defensive material or service to Taiwan.

Because the legislation of the authorization law and funding law is carried out in different committees. The result of the negotiation of the funding bill, the chief member of the Senate Military Commission Yin Hoff bluntly disappointed, this is another mistake in the Bayeng government in the national security field.Gram, Chief Member of the Republican Party of the Senate Budget Committee, said that the budget demand is diverse, and the use of loans of military aid Taiwan will be more refreshing than the gift.

It is worth noting that the US Defense Authorization Act 2023 has included some of the provisions of Taiwan Policy Act that may be passed to reduce the latter's sensitivity.Because of the obvious pertinence of policy and law, the authorization law is only the US defense budget, but the possible role will not change.

Moreover, for the first time in the authorization law, the "Taiwan Fellowship Program" is mentioned.In the two years, we have to go to the Taiwan government to serve and visit with legislative. In fact, this is a kind of supervisor to make the Taiwan government more cooperate with US policies.

However, the doubt of Taiwan's suspicion is increasing. Recently, the local election of the ruling party has defeated, which is the best evidence.Although the focus of local elections is local affairs, from the perspective of the structure, the arrogance of various policies of the DPP is naturally related to the positive support of the United States.The Taiwan army was a cannon fodder, and the pressure of the United States was unspeakable, making it difficult for the government to determine.Now that the United States has intensified, coupled with Johlaid Tailor's strategy to set up a factory in the United States, its strategy of Ratai Anti -China and self -guaranteed chips will definitely cause devastating damage to the Democratic Progressive Party's 2024 election.

The author is a professor of the University of Politics of Taiwan