It seems that Kissinger’s visit to Beijing and his meeting with the Chinese officials did not have any good outcome for the US to reinstall friendship with China, and both sides have still not been able to reach a common ground.
Based on this, the US has taken new steps to supply arms to Taiwan even more, and according to some Western media, the US president wants to arm Taiwan from the source of funding for arms aid to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Kissinger went to Beijing with the aim of preventing a big clash between the two world powers.
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The Financial Times newspaper wrote: “The White House plans to ask the country’s Congress to fund Taiwan’s arms within the framework of the supplementary budget it requests for Ukraine. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget will include arms credits for Taiwan to expedite the delivery of arms to the island as part of its request for supplemental aid funding for Ukraine, two people familiar with the matter said. If the request is approved, Taiwan will receive weapons for the first time through a system funded by US taxpayers’ money called the Foreign Military Financing System”.
This issue shows that the position of the realists in Washington has been severely weakened, they hoped to prevent a strong military confrontation, but the aggressive behavior of the White House officials in arming the island of Taiwan more than before shows that sooner or later we We will witness military tension between the conflicting parties.
A few days ago, the White House announced that the United States will provide arms aid worth $345 million to Taiwan using the mechanism called “Presidential Authorization to Remove Military Stockpiles”, which was previously used to provide arms aid to Ukraine.
These two decisions of the American government; funding Taiwan’s weapons by using the supplementary budget requested for Ukraine and using the aforementioned authority to remove these weapons from the army warehouses, show that Washington has attached increasing urgency to help Taipei.
Some critics of the US government’s current strategy towards Taiwan have asked Washington to speed up the supply of weapons to Taiwan due to the increase in Chinese military activities around the island.
However, the aid does not seem to be able to help Taiwan, a small island hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest US base in the East Asian region, against any possible Chinese invasion.
Eric Sayers, one of the supporters of arming Taiwan and the director of the Beacon Global Strategies think tank located in Washington, said: “This decision is an important step with a message of how far the US government is willing to go to accelerate the establishment of deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. For several decades, we only chose to sell military equipment to Taiwan, but now we have seen that we have used two tools of presidential authority to take from the army warehouse and the foreign military funding mechanism to supply Taiwan with weapons because these mechanisms have been very successful in helping Ukraine.”
The US-Taiwan Business Council, a pro-Taipei lobbying group, said the island is still awaiting delivery of its $23 billion worth of arms purchases, including Harpoon missiles and surveillance drones, and that these deals were previously approved by successive US administrations.
Some of these cases were announced more than five years ago. US military commanders have repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the slow delivery of weapons to Taiwan to strengthen its security.
The White House declined to comment on the report or to disclose details of how much money it would request to supply arms to Taiwan.
But all these issues show that the US is preparing a proxy war against China using Taiwan, and at best it can be said that the US wants to prevent China from a military attack on this island by arming Taiwan more.
The analysis and interpretation of both propositions are correct, but what will be the final result is more important.
If China decides to launch a military attack on Taiwan, the Taiwanese military will not have the power to fight back, and today’s US military aid may be able to give ACOS or QUAD military members a few hours, or at best a day, to return to the island.
To help show that these last two propositions are also extremely wrong.
It should be said that America is making the level of the game more complicated with these actions; America is unable to deal with China in the end, it is trying to involve this country in the margins, involving it in everyday issues that are not important and Taiwan is not considered a number against the destructive power of the Chinese army.
There was a time it was important for the Chinese to preserve Taiwan and not to destroy its facilities and infrastructure, but this island is no longer economically important to the Chinese, just like Hong Kong, which is no longer important to China two decades ago, because each of the cities and China’s Free Zones are Hong Kong.
