The US will supply Taiwan with $345 million in defense equipment, services and training, using the fast-track authority that it has relied on to speed arms to Ukraine.
The package will include “critical defensive stockpiles, multi-domain awareness, anti-armor and air-defense capabilities,” said Lieutenant Colonel Martin Meiners, a Defense Department spokesperson, without providing details on the specific weaponry the US will provide.
The Biden administration has emphasized its long-standing commitment to support Taiwan’s self-defense, but officials in Beijing have accused the US of stoking tensions between the world’s two biggest economies over its backing of the self-governing island.
WATCH: The US will be supplying Taiwan with $345 million in defense equipment, services and training. Vonnie Quinn reports.
Source: Bloomberg
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