Pentagon hastily takes down nuclear report after mistakenly labeling Taiwan as part of China
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/05
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Arrow shows Taiwan included as part of China. (Screenshot of Nuclear Posture Review)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In another gaffe by the Trump administration over it’s policy toward Taiwan, the U.S. Department of Defense was forced to take down a report on that status of nuclear weapons arsenals after it inadvertently included Taiwan in a map of China, reported The Japan Times.
On Page 32 of a document titled “2018 Nuclear Posture Review,” the first such report since the Obama administration in 2010, Taiwan was included in a red map of China in a chart labeled “Nuclear Delivery Systems Since 2010.” The chart was meant to contrast the many new nuclear weapons systems being developed and fielded by Russia, China and North Korea, while the U.S. has only added nuclear capability to the F-35 fighter jet, but by including Taiwan in the chart, it infused an unintended political level of complexity by seeming to formally acknowledge China’s claim to the country.[FULL STORY]
