Published on : 09/15/2022 – 01:01
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A new American challenge to China over Taiwan. This time it is the parliament that initiates the procedure for massive military aid to the island, in the face of threats from Communist China.
With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
This is only a first step, but it certainly won’t appeal to the Beijing authorities. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, led by elected officials from both Democratic and Republican parties, adopts the “Taiwan Policy Act”.
This bill provides for more than $ 4 billion in military aid to Taiwan over the next four years. He also asks the president to sanction the main Chinese financial institutions in the event of “ escalation of hostile acts against Taiwan “.
For all of this to become a reality, this project still needs to be voted on by the Senate and the House of Representatives before being signed by Joe Biden. But this happens in an already tense context. A few days ago the White House announced the sale of over one billion dollars worth of armaments to the Taipei government.
Beijing had just organized his most important military maneuvers around the island, in response to the site visit of Nancy Pelosi, President of the House of Representatives and 3rd person in the American state. Faced with the Chinese fury, without publicly disavowing Nancy Pelosi, the White House had advanced the principle of the separation of powers in the United States.
This time around, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says the Biden administration does not completely agree with what is in store for this new parliamentary initiative.
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