{"id":40045,"date":"2018-11-02T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40045"},"modified":"2018-11-02T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:04:32","slug":"dod-official-urges-taiwan-to-buy-more-weapons-in-fear-of-cross-strait-invasion-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40045","title":{"rendered":"DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A Pentagon official said Monday that Taiwan should increase its military spending to safeguard continued peace and security <\/strong>both across the Taiwan Strait and within the Indo-Pacific, reported Focus Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Helvey, U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, made the suggestion that the self-ruled island \u201cmust have resources to modernize its military and provide the critical material, manning and training needed to deter, or if necessary defeat, a cross-strait invasion\u201d<\/strong><\/em> at the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference in Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n

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According to the official transcript of the speech, Helvey said in a combination of strengthening its military, Taiwan is developing conventional capabilities to meet the peacetime requirements of active military in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

The defense official criticized China for attempting to \u201cerode Taiwan\u2019s diplomatic space in the international arena while increasing the frequency and scale of [People\u2019s Liberation Army] activity within and beyond the First Island Chain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He warned that Taiwan could not “afford to overlook preparing for the one fight it cannot afford to lose.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the face of China’s increasing military threat, the U.S. has utilized the Taiwan Relations Act to sell arms to Taiwan to maintain the island\u2019s self-defense capability as part of an overall effort to prevent China from taking it over by force.<\/p>\n

Helvey\u2019s comments come days after President Xi Jinping told the Chinese military that they should \u201cprepare for war\u201d<\/a> in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

Helvey told the audience that the U.S. and Taiwan both needed to update their strategy on arms procurement, planning, and training to thwart a Chinese invasion.<\/p>\n

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