The Military Aid ‘Package Deal’ – US Sees Taiwan as Next Battlefield

Published in China Review News
(Hong Kong) on 14 Oct 2023
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Translated from by Stephanie Pan. Edited by Patricia Simoni.
On Oct. 11, U.S. media reported that the White House is preparing to submit to Congress for review a large military aid bill that includes Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel in a “package deal.” It is said that the White House hopes that including Taiwan will win greater support for the bill in Congress.

Taiwan Defense Minister Qiu Guozheng said yesterday that, according to the U.S., the package deal has the supply and sale of weapons in mind. According to Qiu, Taiwan regularly communicates with the United States and other countries regarding arms purchases. Those exchanges are ongoing, and anything that benefits Taiwan is welcome.

However, many people posting online have questioned the United States’ inclusion of Taiwan alongside Ukraine and Israel, making it appear as though sooner or later Taiwan will also be at war. Could it be that the United States also regards Taiwan as a place where war is imminent? It is abundantly clear that the United States intends to push Taiwan toward war.

In the past few years, the U.S. has operated under a hegemonic and Cold War mentality, continuously using arms sales, military aid, joint military training, etc., to strengthen military ties between the United States and Taiwan. It has indulged and condoned Taiwan Independence, stirring up trouble and only intensifying confrontation and increasing tension across the Taiwan Strait. To place military aid to Taiwan alongside funding to Ukraine and Israel in a “package deal” adds fuel to the fire and is something that is bound to escalate conflict and exacerbate tension.

Kuomintang legislator Wang Hongwei said yesterday that all foreign media report that Taiwan is the most dangerous place in the world. They see Taiwan as another Ukraine, Israel or Palestine, despite the continued claim made by the Democratic Progress Party that it maintain peace. From the Russia-Ukraine war to today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, everyone is fearful and concerned. War would plunge people into suffering; we must avoid it.

By packaging its military aid to Taiwan with aid Ukraine and Israel, the United States strengthens the impression that Taiwan, like Israel and Ukraine, faces the same dangers with respect to war. Are the Taiwanese people willing to have their name and destiny tied to Ukraine, Israel and Palestine? Can they agree?

The United States is unreliable. One can rely only on oneself for peace. The farther away the United States stays, the greater chance there will be to guarantee peace across the Taiwan Strait, and the safer Taiwan will be.


美媒11日引述消息人士報導,白宮準備提出大型軍援法案,把台灣和烏克蘭、以色列“包裹處理”,提交國會審理。據稱白宮的盤算是希望加入台灣之後,可爭取到更多國會議員的支持。

  台灣“防長”邱國正昨天稱,美方說的包裹進行是把武器供售當成考慮,台灣跟美國、其他國家軍購等有正常交流,都有在作業中,對台灣有利就表達歡迎。

  網路上不少人則質疑,美國把台灣和烏克蘭、以色列放在一起,搞得台灣好像遲早也要打仗一樣,難道台灣也被美國當作戰爭發生地?美國要把台灣推向戰爭的用心昭然若揭。

  近年美方出於霸權心態和冷戰思維,持續通過軍售、軍援、協訓等加強美台軍事聯繫,縱容鼓動“台獨”滋事挑釁,加劇兩岸對抗和台海形勢緊張。把對台軍援與對烏克蘭、以色列軍援“包裹處理”,是火上澆油,變本加厲,勢必激化矛盾,製造更大緊張。

  國民黨“立委”王鴻薇昨天說,外媒都說台灣是世界上最危險的地方,把台灣視為烏克蘭或以色列與巴勒斯坦,民進黨當局則一直稱可以維繫和平。從俄烏戰爭到這次以巴衝突,大家都有恐懼和陰影,戰爭一旦開始,生靈塗炭,所以一定要遠離戰爭。

  美國把對台灣的軍援與對烏克蘭、以色列軍援包裹在一起,進一步強化外界有關台灣和以色列、烏克蘭一樣面臨戰爭危險的印象。名字與命運與烏克蘭、以色列、巴勒斯坦等綁在一起,台灣民眾願意嗎?能答應嗎?

  美國不可靠,和平靠自己。美國滾得愈遠,台海和平愈有保證,台灣也會愈安全。
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