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Taiwan says US aid will help it combat authoritarianism
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te said Monday that a U.S. congressional package to aid his territory passed over the weekend will "bolster the counter-authoritarian front in the Western Pacific."
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For Taiwan’s newly elected leader, the aid package – worth $8 billion (€7.5 billion) – will also “help ensure peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and further enhance trust in the region”.
Taiwan’s current vice president was speaking as he hosted two visiting US Congress members, Republican Lisa McClain and Democrat Dan Kildee.
The new Taiwanese leader, also known as William Lai, a US-educated former medical researcher, is a vocal critic of Beijing and its push for political unification with the mainland.
In recent elections, pro-unification Nationalists won a narrow majority in parliament, but their influence over foreign and other domestic policy is likely to be limited.
The US aid package – due to be voted on and approved by the Senate on Tuesday – covers a wide range of services designed to maintain and upgrade Taiwan’s military hardware.
Separately, Taiwan has signed multi-billion dollar contracts with the US for advanced F-16V fighter jets, M1 Abrams battle tanks and the HIMARS rocket system, which the US has also supplied to Ukraine.
Taiwan has also been expanding its own defence industry, building submarines and developing its own trainer aircraft.
Lai, from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, won a landslide victory in January’s election and will next month replace President Tsai Ing-wen, who Beijing has sought to isolate over the past eight years.
China is determined to annex the island – which it regards as its territory – by force if necessary, and has underlined the threat with near-daily incursions by its navy and air force into waters and airspace around Taiwan.
While Washington and Taipei do not have formal diplomatic ties, in deference to Beijing, Congresswoman McClain stressed the need for the wider world to recognise the importance of the relationship.
“Peace is our goal. But in order to do that we have to have an effective relationship, which we value. Not just militarily, but economically,” said the congresswoman, who is on an official visit to Taipei.
Read Also: US Senate votes today on aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (Portuguese version)
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