Senators Reaffirm Backing for Arms Sales to Taiwan
A bipartisan group of 25 senators told a Taiwan official Oct. 7 that they will continue to support U.S. arms sales to his country to ensure it “has the asymmetric capabilities it requires to deter Chinese aggression.”
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In a letter to H.E. Alexander Yui, representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, the senators also welcomed Taiwan’s recent pledges to buy $10 billion worth of American soybeans, corn, wheat and beef; purchase 6 million tons of American LNG annually; and potentially invest $200 billion more in the U.S.
The letter, which was led by Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., also supports “accelerated completion of a U.S.-Taiwan trade deal.”