The U.S. State Department on Monday approved a potential $100 million arms sale to Taiwan, including maintenance and upgrades on the island’s Patriot Air Defense missile systems.
warned the people of Taiwan that America and her allies cannot protect them from China, should it decide to attack:
After experiencing so many rounds of US arms sales to Taiwan and imports of US beef and pork containing ractopamine, and after closely observing the real performance of the US from the “Kabul moment” to the “Ukraine crisis,” more and more Taiwan people have truly realized that the US is unreliable, and the second-hand weapons sold by the US to Taiwan are even more unreliable.
On Tuesday, Australia announced that it was accelerating plans to buy long-range missiles, citing new threats posed by Russia and China, including a potential invasion of Taiwan. “There was a working assumption that an act of aggression by China toward Taiwan might take place in the 2040s. I think that timeline now has been dramatically compressed,” Australian Minister for Defense Peter Dutton told Seven Network television.
The current state of affairs between China and Taiwan clearly reflects the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which China has refused to condemn. Some observers fear China will follow Russia’s lead and attack Taiwan while the world is preoccupied with the Ukraine conflict, while others wonder if China is losing confidence in its ability to capture the island as it watches Russia fare poorly in Ukraine.
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