Sputnik News
Date: 03.11.2018
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US military officials are urging their Taiwanese counterparts to buy more US weapons in order to modernize their military, stressing that its present capabilities can’t guarantee its safety in the event of an invasion by China. The statement comes days before Taiwan will hold controversial live-fire exercises in the South China Sea.
David Helvey, a senior Pentagon official for Asian and Pacific security affairs, advised that officials from the self-ruling island “must have resources to modernize its military and provide the critical materiel, manning and training needed to deter, or if necessary defeat, a cross-strait invasion,” at the US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday. [FULL STORY]
