(Taipei / Washington Comprehensive News) The United States announced that it will provide Taiwan with military assistance worth 345 million US dollars (S $ 459 million). This is the first time that the Bayeng government has provided military aid to Taiwan with existing inventory withdrawal from the United States.
Comprehensive Reuters, Agence France -Presse, Bloomberg, Voice of America, and Taiwan United Daily reports, the US White House local time on Friday (July 28) made the above announcement, but did not announce the military support list.
The White House statement says that the military aid provided to Taiwan will include defense supplies and services, as well as military training and education, which can assist Taiwan to self -defense.
A spokesman for the Pentagon, Menas, said that the military aids, including the key defense inventory, multi -field perception, anti -armor and air defense capabilities, which responded to the weapon system, so that Taiwan can now be used to create and strengthen deterrent.
It is reported that two U.S. officials who are confidential because they are confidentially required by things have revealed that the United States will provide Taiwan with portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, guns and missiles.
The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan thanked the United States for their firm security commitments for Taiwan, and said that Taiwan and the United States will continue to cooperate closely on security issues to jointly maintain the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait and maintain the status quo.
Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the United States, said in a statement that China has resolutely opposed the US military sales of Taiwan's military sales and military connections with Taiwan, and also called on the United States to stop making new factors in the Taiwan Strait.
In the National Defense Authorization Law of the US Congress in fiscal 2023, it is clear that the government can use presidential extraction rights to provide Taiwan with a annual weapon assistance of US $ 1 billion.
