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THE US ramped up its provocative stance towards China yesterday, approving arms sales to Taiwan worth around $1.8 billion (£1.4bn).
The Pentagon confirmed that the weapons included rocket launchers, sensors and artillery.
Taiwan said the arms would help it “build credible combat capabilities and strengthen the development of asymmetric warfare.”
The US has ratcheted up tensions with China in what has been described as a “new cold war,” imposing trade restrictions and penalties and increasing military activity in the South China Sea.
In August, the US sent Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar to meet Taiwanese president Tsai Ing Wen.
The People’s Republic of China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which is not part of the United Nations and has diplomatic ties with just 16 of the UN’s 193 member states.
Taiwan has been governed separately from the mainland since 1949, when nationalist forces fled there following their defeat by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.
