US OKs military aid to Taiwan under program usually reserved for sovereign nations

In this grab from video released by the Taiwan Military News Agency, a pilot checks on a F-16s at Hualien Airbase in Taiwan’s southeastern Hualien county, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. Taiwan deployed aircraft and vessels and activated land-based missile systems after the Chinese military launched drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a “stern warning” over what it called collusion between “separatists and foreign forces,” its defense ministry said, days after the island’s vice president stopped over in the United States. (Taiwan Military News Agency via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved the first-ever U.S. military transfer […]

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