Biden recently signed off on a $80m grant to 🇹🇼 Taiwan for the purchase of American military equipment to which 🇨🇳 China said it “deplores and opposes”.
- It was less than the cost of a single modern fighter jet. Taiwan already has on order more than $14bn worth of US military equipment. Does a miserly $80m more matter?
- The $80m is not a loan. It comes from American taxpayers. For the first time in more than 40 years, America is using its own money to send weapons to a place it officially doesn’t recognize.