The US has agreed to sell about $6 billion in weapons and aircrafts to Taiwan. The catch is that this sale may enrage China in which the US is currently trying to make them agree to Iran terms. (its hard to get someone to accept something that drives the entire nation) Last time we attempted this, there was definitely outrage and China threatened to withdraw from the international arms control talks. Some even believe that China went as far as to have sold middle range missles to Iran. The package is suppose to be defensive. The government is making sure that this event will not come as a surprise to China. Today they sent out a notification.
Well, there goes our chance to work with China. The government is really touchy about the issues of Taiwan and to sell them guns even if its only for "defensive" purposes could push them over the limit to threaten something more than "withdraw[ing] from the international arms control talks. We will just have to see.
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Personally, I don't think that the US' selling weapons to Taiwan is very smart. The US knows that China will be very mad about this, and selling weapons to Taiwan clearly shows that the US has not gotten over the Cold War "hype" yet. This is them backing a nationalist country just to go against a communist country. If China wants to sell weapons to Iran, I can understand that as a defense. Now, my opinion is somewhat skewed, because I am a little biased towards China. However, the US and China definitely have something to talk over.
-Henry Zhang
The US needs to talk with everyone. ;/ I know they are just trying to lift off some of the debt by going to the highest bidder but really? In the long run, this might hurt us even more.
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