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Pentagon Delegation's Beijing Visit Held Up Over Gargantuan US Arms Package For Taiwan
Pentagon Delegation's Beijing Visit Held Up Over Gargantuan US Arms Package For Taiwan
China is using a Pentagon itinerary as structural leverage, and Taiwan remains front and center as the key geopolitical snag in bettering communications and relations between Beijing and Washington.
According to a Financial Times report published Thursday, China is actively holding up a proposed visit by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's under-secretary of defense for policy. The move is a transparent effort to pressure President Trump over a looming $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan.
Elbridge Colby, left.
While Colby had...
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