The US on Tuesday approved a US$100 million sale of arms and related services to Taiwan.
The package, which is expected to be formally confirmed by the US Congress next month, includes the “services support, designed to sustain, maintain, and improve” Taiwan’s Patriot missile systems, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.
Such missile systems are of growing importance to Taiwan’s defenses in the face of increasing Chinese incursions into the nation’s air defense identification zone, and the Ministry of National Defense should station more launch vehicles for Patriots and other missile systems on the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands,
Dozens of Chinese jets entered Taiwan's air defense zone, the island's officials said. Taiwan responded by scrambling its own fighter jets and activating missile defense systems.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says Beijing now speaks less of the nine-dash line and more often of the Four Sha and expressed doubts on Chin
As concerns over China's growing assertiveness rise, including fears of a contingency in the Taiwan Strait, renewed attention is falling on Japan's alliance with the United States.