Biden will ask the US Congress to approve the sale of weapons worth 1.1 billion dollars to Taiwan

MADRID, 30 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Joe Biden Administration plans to present a formal request to Congress to sell Taiwan an arms package valued at 1.1 billion dollars, at a time when tensions with China are increasing, after Washington's maneuvers to strengthen the ties with Taipei, despite protests from Beijing, which considers the island part of its territory.

Included in said plan, which is still in its initial phase, are some 60 anti-ship missiles --valued at 335 million dollars--, one hundred air-to-air missiles --with a price of around 85.6 million dollars-- and a surveillance radar system that reaches 665 million dollars, according to sources to which the American newspaper 'Politico' has had access.

The news comes at a time when China has intensified its military exercises in the region in response to the recent official visits that various representatives of US politics have made to Taiwan in the last month, being the most significant of all of them. that of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

Although the paperwork could take some time due to the current congressional recess, it is likely that Democrats and Republicans will agree to give the green light to the plan, at a time when Washington ensures that with each passing day the possibility that China chooses to take the island by force.

Although the United States has maintained its adherence to the 1979 law by which it recognizes only one China and therefore leaves Taiwan's sovereignty in the hands of the Asian giant, in recent years it has clung to ambiguity to avoid ruling on whether it would militarily defend to the island in the face of a hypothetical invasion by Beijing.