The US must clear a US$19 billion (S$25.3 billion) weapons backlog to Taiwan, says Mr Mike Gallagher. Read more at straitstimes.com.
the chair of a committee on China said on Thursday, after the exercise indicated the US must boost production of long-range missiles and businesses must brace for economic fallout.
“We are well within the window of maximum danger for a Chinese Communist Party invasion of Taiwan, and yesterday’s war game stressed the need to take action to deter CCP aggression and arm Taiwan to the teeth before any crisis begins,” Mr Gallagher said in a statement. US officials say Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be ready to invade the island by 2027, but acknowledge this does not mean China has decided to do so.
Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Washington did not respond immediately to a request for comment on the war game.
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