China warns Biden: do not sell weapons to our Taiwan territory
The US has announced a large arms sales contract to Taiwan, namely M109 self-propelled howitzers and 1700 kits for the conversion of ordinary bullets into GPS-guided, but this move could not pass without consequences.
The Chinese embassy accused the US of "interfering in its internal affairs" and of "sending wrong signals" to an "inalienable part of Chinese territory", namely the island of Taiwan which, for Beijing, is only a rebel province. The statement further stated that Biden's new arms sale "seriously endangers China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," also violating the one-China policy.
"China will resolutely take legitimate and necessary countermeasures in light of the development of the situation," the embassy statement warned without further elaborating.
BAE Systems' contract must first go through the Congressional overhaul, which is expected, and while it's not a hefty number for a foreign country's weapons systems sale at around $ 750 million, the symbolism is still huge – signaling the seamless continuity of the Trump-era arms sales. Anyway, to understand what was sold, I echo a video with the presentation of the M109 Paladin in action in the US military
CNN previously quoted a State Department spokesperson as saying, “If closed, this sale proposal will help modernize Taiwan's artillery stock, bolstering its self-defense capabilities to cope with current threats and future ".
Taiwan is looking for a strategy dubbed "Taiwan Fortress" that aims to make the island able to withstand, at least for some time, a possible attack by Communist China, at least until the allies, the US and Japan in the lead , were unable to mobilize their forces en masse. The purchase of this new modern artillery goes precisely in this direction.
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