US approves $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan including advanced missile defense system

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US approves $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan including advanced missile defense system
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The United States has approved $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, including the delivery for the first time to the island of an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system. The sale is certain to anger China. Taiwan’s presidential office on Saturday thanked Washington for greenlighting the potential arms sales.

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The U.S. is Taiwan’s strongest unofficial ally and its laws bound it to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself.

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