Trump Officials Announce More Than $11 Billion in Arms Sales for Taiwan

[Michael]

Iv always wondered maybe Chinese posters can explain this to me, why does China not reciprocate and sign a massive arms deal with Iran or Venezuela or another anti US country.

Take a guess: why has China been able to reach its current position without resorting to war? Furthermore, the United States is in continuous decline, while China is experiencing sustained rapid development.

The highest level of strategic thinking: Subduing the enemy without fighting!

 

[Flotilla]

The US not fighting for Taiwan is your hopium talking. In reality, the US, Japan, Australia etc will all come to Taiwan’s defense.

Taiwan has been a de facto independent state for almost 80 years now. China is all talk at this point. The Iranians and its proxies were humiliated, the Russians were humiliated, and China is next up on the list for its own humiliation.

Humiliated Russia???? hahaha...
Too much fentanyl!.

 

[F-22Raptor]

See this is the issue you come up with nonsense claims. Where's this 20 years ahead evidence.

I used your CSIS example to point a key flaw there are more.

Recently in September, President Trump stated US submarines are 25+ years ahead of China and Russia

The USN also believes they hold significant overmatch in the undersea domain and that’s been stated in testimony.

 

[F-22Raptor]

The US is expanding it's force posture? Right now there is not a single USAF F-35 or F-22 unite permanently deployed in East Asia, you know that right? You know the USAF has 30 year old F-16s and F-15s in Korea and Japan right?

Australia gets F-35s, Growlers and Nuke subs.

Taiwan STRUGGLEs to get F-16V upgrades and the promise of conventional subs "somehow".

Do not let cold hard facts hit you on the way out...

Yes expanding, and the US rotates F-35/F-22 squadrons throughout Kadena, Iwakuni, Osan air bases consistently . F-35s even just recently deployed to the Philippines.

The US has significant air power deployed throughout Asia.

 

[Yasser76]

Yes expanding, and the US rotates F-35/F-22 squadrons throughout Kadena, Iwakuni, Osan air bases consistently . F-35s even just recently deployed to the Philippines.

The US has significant air power deployed throughout Asia.

Now you are back peddling. As I stated, no PERMANENT 5th gen units.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Humiliated Russia???? hahaha...
Too much fentanyl!.

1.1-1.2 million dead and wounded, tens of thousands of pieces of equipment destroyed, NATO expansion, economy sanctioned and now close to recession, multiple strategic defeats throughout the Middle East as a result, and an independent Ukraine that’s now deeply anti-Russian and securing economic and security deals with the West. All for the……Donbas that Russia HOPES it can take in the next 2 years.

Yeah humiliated

 

[Yasser76]

1.1-1.2 million dead and wounded, tens of thousands of pieces of equipment destroyed, NATO expansion, economy sanctioned and now close to recession, multiple strategic defeats throughout the Middle East as a result, and an independent Ukraine that’s now deeply anti-Russian and securing economic and security deals with the West. All for the……Donbas that Russia HOPES it can take in the next 2 years.

Yeah humiliated

Do you actually read the news or keep up with events? Are you actually an adult on here? Serious question. You come across as an 11 year old.

Putin is holding every card and trump is helping him. Ukrainians have already agreed not to join NATO

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/europe/putin-no-willingness-to-compromise-ukraine-intl

On Ukraine, everyone’s trying to stay in Trump’s good books

All the frenzied diplomacy underway seems more about appeasing the U.S. president and avoiding the blame for failed negotiations.

www.politico.eu

 

[F-22Raptor]

Now you are back peddling. As I stated, no PERMANENT 5th gen units.

F-35 and F-22 units are CONSTANTLY rotating through East Asia. It being permanent or not is irrelevant.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Do you actually read the news or keep up with events? Are you actually an adult on here? Serious question. You come across as an 11 year old.

Putin is holding every card and trump is helping him. Ukrainians have already agreed not to join NATO

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/europe/putin-no-willingness-to-compromise-ukraine-intl

On Ukraine, everyone’s trying to stay in Trump’s good books

All the frenzied diplomacy underway seems more about appeasing the U.S. president and avoiding the blame for failed negotiations.

www.politico.eu

The revised plan now has the US guaranteeing Article V type security for Ukraine. Ukraine not being a part of NATO was known even under the Biden administration. NATO gained an 800 mile border with Russia with Finland joining NATO. Ukraine is already a de facto Western aligned state.

 

[Yasser76]

F-35 and F-22 units are CONSTANTLY rotating through East Asia. It being permanent or not is irrelevant.

BS, there are permanent units there that have second line equipment. having permanent units v rotation is a massive difference, otherwise USAF would have no permanent units globally. Your argument is making no sense now, and honestly, I am ambrassed for you

 

[Yasser76]

The revised plan now has the US guaranteeing Article V type security for Ukraine. Ukraine not being a part of NATO was known even under the Biden administration. NATO gained an 800 mile border with Russia with Finland joining NATO. Ukraine is already a de facto Western aligned state.

Zelensky is being forced into a bad deal by Trump, literally every news report on the planet is reporting that, but yeah, lets stick to your wacko fantasy land

 

[Yousafzai_M]

The only way China would invade Taiwan would be if Taiwan would get a useful idiot like Jewlensky, getting his own people slaughtered just because the retard wants to wear the badge of being part of the West and 'democracy' - and in turn, fight the war for NATO.

All the US and its cronies have to do is supply money and weapons, ready to fight till the last Ukrainian. They are trying the same trick in Asia to provoke China, its not because they give a f**k about Taiwan.

Selling weapons to Taiwan is nothing more than a provocation but Chinese are not morons like Russians and Taiwanese are not retarded like the Eastern Europeans.

 

[东风夜放花千树]

It seems that the rare earth problem in the United States has been solved.

Is the United States equipped with hypersonic missiles? According to the news, the result of the hypersonic experiment in the United States was Mach 5. Russian, Iranian, and Yemeni hypersonic missiles have been successfully combat, and North Korea's hypersonic missiles have also been successfully equipped after testing, all exceeding Mach 10.

Is the US navy powerful? According to the news, the US aircraft carrier strike group signed an armistice after fighting with Yemen. The goal of opening up the Persian Gulf to deliver supplies to Israel has not been achieved. Recently, two planes crashed into the sea in half an hour in the South China Sea.

Is the US Air Force powerful? According to the news, aircraft of the second echelon equipped by a certain country locked two F22s at sea. Raytheon revealed that the maximum range of the AIM-260A needs to exceed 190KM, but unfortunately there is no mass production equipment unit yet. The PL-15E of the India-Pakistani May War has been confirmed to have a kill range of more than 190KM. The U.S. F35 crashed 11 and the F22 crashed 7, and the U.S. fifth-generation aircraft are leading in this regard.

Is the US Army powerful? led 16 countries to start wars without winning.

Do American military personnel receive salaries? According to the news, the U.S. government has intimately provided loans to military personnel.

Is the United States a democracy? The United States passed the Jewish Act, and the United States is not the United States of Americans, it is a puppet of the Jews.

If the United States is really strong, the United States should lead NATO to force Russia to surrender, rather than Trump repeatedly asking Putin for a truce. Or, as in 2016, they gathered troops in the South China Sea and threatened war against China. If you think these two countries are too powerful, you can attack Yemen and open up transportation channels to Israel. Or invade Venezuela and subvert the Venezuelan regime. Unfortunately, we don't see these happening.

Here is a quote from what the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said during the Sino-US high-level strategic dialogue with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Sullivan Sullivan:

"We thought of you too well, we thought you would observe basic diplomatic etiquette, so we had to clarify our position just now. Let me say now, you are not qualified to speak in front of China, and you are talking to China from the position of strength. ”

 

[Ali_Baba]

The US not fighting for Taiwan is your hopium talking. In reality, the US, Japan, Australia etc will all come to Taiwan’s defense.

You believe they will, and I don't believe they will. No one in the East is going to fight China or a province of China.

Taiwan has been a de facto independent state for almost 80 years now. China is all talk at this point. The Iranians and its proxies were humiliated, the Russians were humiliated, and China is next up on the list for its own humiliation.

The Iranians are still there and now focussed on getting much stronger. The attempt by the USA and Israel to overthrow the IRI regime and put in place Reza Pahlavi as their poodle to control Iran failed.....

USA lost to Yemen and had to enter into a "peace deal with Yemen" to not attack the USN or American ships.

Russians are gaining land in Ukraine which is why even the USA wants out of the Ukrainian war by attempting to force Ukraine to accept every condition the Russians have put forward to date.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Taiwan has been de facto independent for almost 80 years. The onus is on China to start hostilities. Otherwise, China is just a bag of wind.

So - what is stopping Taiwan from formally declaring independence now if China is "such a bag of wind" ?