US Arms Sales to Taiwan Boost Anti-China Strategy

The Guam Daily Post

30 October 2020

While China has long opposed U.S. arms exports to Taiwan, the Trump administration’s latest sales are worrying to Beijing for another reason: They show a greater alignment among the two democracies on the so-called “hedgehog” strategy to resist an invasion. To counter the latest U.S. weapons sale, China could do more military exercises, live-fire incidents or make moves to threaten outlying Taiwanese islands, according to Dr Wu Shang-Su, a Research Fellow at RSIS.

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