Introduction

China says that new US support for Taiwan is intolerable. Washington and Taipei are in talks about the US providing $500 million in free weapons. The arms will be sent to Taiwan using the presidential drawdown authority, which is the same authority that President Biden has been using to arm Ukraine. Taiwanese media also recently reported that about 200 US troops have been deployed to Taiwan to assist in training,. marking the largest known US military presence in Taiwan in decades.