BEIJING: China on Wednesday criticized its latest package US military aid arrive Taiwan On Wednesday, he said such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation”.
The US Senate passed the $95 billion bill late Tuesday Combat support in UkraineAfter months of delay and contentious debate over how the United States should engage in foreign wars, Israel and Taiwan. China claims the entire island of Taiwan and threatens to occupy it by force if necessary.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China said the aid “gravely violated” US commitments to China and “sent the wrong signal to China.” Taiwan independence separatist forces“
Office spokesman Zhu Fenglian added that Taiwan’s ruling party supports Taiwan’s independence Democratic Progressive PartyTaiwan, which won its third four-year presidential term in January this year, is “willing to become a pawn for external powers to use Taiwan to contain China and put Taiwan in a dangerous situation.”
Tuesday, Taiwan In President-elect Lai Ching He told the visiting US congressional delegation that the aid package would “strengthen resistance to authoritarianism in the Western Pacific alliance chain” and “help ensure peace and stability in the entire region.” Taiwan Strait and increase confidence in the region. “
The program has enjoyed broad support in Congress since Biden first requested funding last summer. But congressional leaders have struggled with a growing backlash from conservatives who question U.S. involvement in foreign wars. And believes that Congress should pay attention to the influx of immigrants along the US-Mexico border.
The package covers a wide range of parts and services designed to maintain and upgrade Taiwan’s military hardware. In addition, Taiwan signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with the United States to provide Ukraine with the latest generation of F-16V fighter jets, M1 Abrams main battle tanks and HIMARS rocket systems.
Taiwan is also expanding its defense industry, building submarines and training aircraft. Next month, China plans to deploy its third and fourth domestically produced stealth frigates to the Chinese navy, as part of its asymmetric warfare strategy of using smaller forces to counter larger ones through the use of sophisticated or unconventional tactics and weapons. big opponent
China sends navy ships and fighter planes to invade the sea and airspace around Taiwan every day. It also seeks to strip Taiwan of its few remaining formal diplomatic partners.
However, only two People’s Liberation Army Air Force aircraft and seven navy ships were seen operating around Taiwan from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning, possibly due to heavy rain and low visibility at night on Taiwan’s west coast facing mainland China.
Amid rising tensions, China launched dozens of such missions within 24 hours, many of which crossed the center line of the Taiwan Strait or entered Taiwan’s air defense detection zone.
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