The Biden administration sent formal notifications to the US Congress on Friday of the intent to sell radars, anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles to Taiwan.

The total value of the equipment and maintenance contracts adds up to just over $1.1 billion.

This is the fifth – and the largest so far – weapons package for Taiwan approved by the current US government.

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  • @TeezyZeezy
    8•2 years ago

    Why is Taiwan part of China?

    Not bad faith, just am not up on the history and China’s side of the issue.

    • @aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
      20•2 years ago

      Taiwan has been part of China far longer than US has even existed. During the civil war after the communists won the nationalists fled to Taiwan and set up a fascist dictatorship and said they represent all of China. Up until the Shanghai Communique in the 1970s this fascist dictatorship was the sole legal representation of China, but one of the terms to China’s opening up was the US recognizes mainland China (PRC) as the sole legal representative and they agreed at least legally that Taiwan is a part of the PRC. Since then Taiwan has liberalized politically and economically but are now more than ever a total US puppet. The US has done basically everything short of legally recognizing Taiwan, sending massive amounts of weapons, having US troops training Taiwan troops, despite being a very different overall context in the US eyes Taiwan is like China’s Ukraine. They don’t give a fuck about the people there and will fight China to the last Taiwanese just like they’re willingly letting thousands die in Ukraine. Taiwan is also very important economically, with control over the taiwan strait probably being more important than Taiwan itself.

      • @XiaoFeiJu
        -1•2 years ago

        I thought Taiwan was a part of China but NOT the PRC?

        • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
          7•2 years ago

          Unless I’m misunderstanding some terminology, “China” includes the mainland as well as various partially autonomous regions like Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and the PRC is the legitimate government of China according to themselves and almost every other country. The government on Taiwan claims that they (“ROC”) are the legitimate government of all of China (and some additional territory, IIRC), which is obviously BS

    • @ComradeChairmanKGB
      19•2 years ago

      Taiwan itself says they’re part of China, they just disagree about who’s actually China. It’s the remnants of the KMT, the fascists who got kicked out by the revolution.

      • @TeezyZeezy
        4•2 years ago

        I’ve done some reading now and am going to watch some videos provided.

        One China.

        Thanks

    • @Samubai
      5•2 years ago

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfaXwBLLDjU

      Check this series out about why China’s borders are the way they are. As @aworldtowin pointed out, it’s been part of China let’s longer than the US has even been a nation.