The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday.
The package – which is part of the State Department’s foreign military financing (FMF) program – totals $80 million and will be paid for by US taxpayers.
“FMF will be used to strengthen Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities through joint and combined defense capability and enhanced maritime domain awareness and maritime security capability,” the department wrote in its notification to Congress that was reviewed by CNN.
The US issued a declaration of Independence… from Britain. Not Portugal.
Taiwan == ROC. The ROC was the original government of China. China == PRC. ROC has never in history been a part of PRC. There is as much reason for them to declare independence from PRC as there is for the US to declare independence from Portugal.
PRC are the ones who broke away from ROC, so they are the ones to declare independence.
You just chose to ignore the fact that the PRC claims Taiwan as their territory, while Portugal makes no such claim over the US.
I claim France as my territory. Why has France not declared independence?
I’ll help you get there. Do you have an army of 2 million men, and spend 300 billion dollars a year on weapons?
Because the PRC does, and they do claim ROC as theirs.