The U.S. has plans to fast-track $500 million in weapons aid to Taiwan this year as a Band-Aid for delays in a larger $4.5 billion aid package, Taiwan says.
. China conducted simulated missile strikes on the island and appeared to simulate preparations for an invasion.
Meanwhile, President Biden has repeatedly stated that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China moved forward with an invasion, but the White House has walked back that commitment each time. The administration's official position is one of"strategic ambiguity." President Biden has repeatedly indicated the U.S. would intervene in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, but his staff has walked back the commitment each time.Taiwan first split from mainland China in 1949 when democratic forces fled to the island after losing a civil war to the Chinese Communist Party.
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