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Taiwan will not be any country’s ‘bargaining chip’, island’s president says

Taiwanese president says ties with Washington ‘rock solid’, hours after leaders of US and China share first call since November

Beijing issues warlike warnings after Washington backs Taipei with record weapons deal and legal pledges

The U.S. government has granted an arms package worth $11.15 billion to Taiwan in a move that is bound to fuel the tensions in U.S.-Taiwan-China relations.

Package includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, and has drawn an angry response from China

Package will be the largest-ever U.S. arms sales to Taiwan when approved, dwarfing Biden-era deals

The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

President Lai Ching-te declared there was ‘no room for compromise on national security’ in face of escalating harassment and espionage

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says he will put forth a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build a Taiwan Dome, an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities, in the face of U.S. pressure for the island to increase its defense spending