Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "U.S. Says Missile Parts Mistakenly Sent to Taiwan."
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Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "U.S. Says Missile Parts Mistakenly Sent to Taiwan."
The U.S. military mistakenly shipped parts from a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan, Pentagon officials announced Tuesday in the second incident to come to light in recent months in which nuclear weapons were mishandled. [...]
Bonnie S. Glaser, an expert on China and Taiwan at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said she doubted the latest incident would further strain relations.
U.S. officials have twice halted Taiwan's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, Glaser said. China frequently objects to the U.S. providing conventional weapons systems to Taiwan, but Glaser said she doubted the Chinese would see that the shipment was anything other than a mistake.
"I think the Chinese would have to be incredibly sensitive and paranoid to think the United States would be arming Taiwan with nuclear capabilities," Glaser said. "It runs counter to everything we have done in the past, not to mention is contrary to our interests."
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