{"id":226419,"date":"2023-01-02T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=226419"},"modified":"2022-12-31T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T05:29:17","slug":"state-department-approves-180-million-arms-sale-for-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/state-department-approves-180-million-arms-sale-for-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Approves $180 Million Arms Sale for Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Deal Is for Volcano Anti-Tank Mine-Laying Systems<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/china-vs-usa.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/china-vs-usa.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/china-vs-usa.webp 534w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/china-vs-usa-300x189.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>29 Dec 2022 &#8211; <\/em>The State Department yesterday <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/press-media\/major-arms-sales\/taipei-economic-and-cultural-representative-office-united-states-27\" >approved a potential $180 million arms sale for Taiwan<\/a> amid heightened tensions with China over US support for the island.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said the deal was for vehicle-launched Volcano anti-tank munition-laying systems and related equipment. The primary contractors for the deal are Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s approval notifies Congress of the potential deal and begins a period during which lawmakers could attempt to block the sale. But the sale shouldn\u2019t have any issues as there is virtually no opposition to arming Taiwan in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The potential sale comes after President Biden signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes $10 billion in loans for Taiwan to buy US-made arms that will be disbursed over five years. The aid is unprecedented as the US has never financed weapons purchases for the island.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the State Department approved <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-taiwan-business-china-xi-jinping-ee81302800a9121614140683ff31e0ca\" >a $425 million arms sale<\/a> to Taiwan for spare aircraft parts to support the island\u2019s F-16 fighters, C-130 transport planes, and other US-supplied weapons systems.<\/p>\n<p>China is opposed to any new US arms sales to Taiwan and much more strongly opposed to the new military aid. In response to Biden signing the NDAA, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/12\/26\/china-launches-major-drills-around-taiwan-in-response-to-new-us-military-aid\/\" >China launched major drills around Taiwan<\/a>, citing \u201cthe escalating collusion and provocation by the United States and Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Dave DeCamp is the news editor of<\/em> antiwar.com<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/12\/29\/state-department-approves-180-million-arms-sale-for-taiwan\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; news.antiwar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Dec 2022 &#8211; The Deal Is for Volcano Anti-Tank Mine-Laying Systems &#8211; China is opposed to any new US arms sales to Taiwan and much more strongly opposed to the new military aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":204572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2753,1161,1104,417,244,1126,1050,2064,1148,70,1594],"class_list":["post-226419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","tag-agent-provocateur","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-trade","tag-bullying","tag-china","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-south-china-sea","tag-taiwan","tag-usa","tag-war-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}