{"id":75663,"date":"2025-12-19T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/18\/us-announces-more-than-10bn-of-arms-sales-to-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:01:11","slug":"us-announces-more-than-10bn-of-arms-sales-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75663","title":{"rendered":"US announces more than $10bn of arms sales to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Package includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, and has drawn an angry response from China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/the-maps-that-show-how-chinas-military-is-squeezing-taiwan\">The maps that show how China\u2019s military is squeezing Taiwan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10bn that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.<\/p>\n<p>The state department announced the sales late on Wednesday during a nationally televised address by president Donald Trump, who made scant mention of foreign policy issues and did not speak about China or Taiwan at all. US-Chinese tensions have ebbed and flowed during Trump\u2019s second term, largely over trade and tariffs but also over China\u2019s increasing aggressiveness toward Taiwan, which Beijing has said must unify with the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/18\/us-announces-more-than-10bn-of-arms-sales-to-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Package includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, and has drawn an angry response from ChinaThe maps that show how China\u2019s military is squeezing TaiwanThe Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75664,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75663\/revisions\/75664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}