'I sign off on all foreign military sales, including weapons to Taiwan, and I promise you, Madam President, we will deliver those weapons,' Michael McCaul, chair of the US House foreign affairs committee, says.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – A senior US lawmaker pledged on Saturday, April 8, to help provide training for Taiwan’s armed force and to speed up the delivery of weapons, as China began three days of military exercises around the island Beijing claims as its territory.returned to Taipei from Los Angeles, where she met speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, infuriating Beijing.
“As the House foreign affairs committee chairman, I sign off on all foreign military sales, including weapons to Taiwan, and I promise you, Madam President, we will deliver those weapons,” he said. “We are doing everything we can in Congress to speed up these sales and get the weapons that you need to defend yourselves,” McCaul, a Republican, said.
While a defense pact between Taiwan and the United States ended in 1979 when Washington severed formal diplomatic ties in favor of Beijing, a close military relationship endures and the United States is Taiwan’s main foreign source of arms.
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