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Taipei says it’s yet to receive formal notice as concerns grow over Washington’s commitment to island’s security

The U.S. is pausing a $14bn arms sale to Taiwan as it diverts munitions to sustain the war against Iran, exposing mounting anxieties over rapidly depleting stockpiles.

It comes just days after Donald Trump returned from a high-profile summit with Xi Jinping in China, a country that claims sovereignty over self-governed Taiwan and has threatened to “reunite” it with the mainland by force, if necessary.

Trump said he had discussed the matter of the $14bn arms deal “in great detail” with Chinese president Xi Jinping and would make a decision “over the next fairly short period”, breaking decades of U.S. policy that states decision on Taiwan should not be made in collaboration with Beijing.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Taiwan just needs to get trump to visit and the arms sale will be back on

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Or just send him a ~~piece~~ peace prize award, golden if possible.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Golden is mandatory. You can't be sending him some TEMU Peace Prize.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago

Honestly, gold-painted aluminum will probably suffice...

[–] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Just pledge to invest 100 trillion dollars to the us.

He’ll be dead before he figures it out

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Why such a low number?

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

A welcome group from the plane with lots of young girls waving flags would actually do it, I guess. That's not a joke. I'm tired.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 10 points 23 hours ago

Kids, like China did

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

I hate that you're right :(