Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Proposes $6.43 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan."
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Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Proposes $6.43 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan."
Bonnie Glaser, of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that in agreeing to the arms sales now, "on the one hand, the U.S. wanted to send a signal of U.S. support for Ma's less-provocative policy toward the mainland, [and on the other] enable Taiwan to negotiate with the mainland from a position of strength."
But she noted several weapon systems that Taiwan wanted, especially submarines, weren't included in the package -- presumably in deference to Beijing. Read the article
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