US announces $345 million military aid package for Taiwan in move likely to anger China at time of fraught relations between Washington and Beijing
Beijing has repeatedly demanded the United States, Taiwan's most important arms supplier, halt the sale of weapons to the island. / Photo: AFP
A statement from the White House announced the package of"defence articles and services of the Department of Defence, and military education and training, to provide assistance to Taiwan." Congress has authorised President Joe Biden to draw aid for Taiwan from American military stocks – the same way that Washington has provided large quantities of assistance to Ukraine since the Russian military incursion in February 2022.
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