The weeks go by and look the same in the Pacific. Indeed, Washington has just authorized thea sale of 4 armed MALE MQ-9B Sea Gardian drone systems to Taiwan, which naturally provokes anger and promises of retaliation from Beijing, which immediately sent its brand new Type 75 assault helicopter carrier flirting with Taiwanese territorial waters. While there is an indisputable relationship between arms sales in Taipei and tensions between Washington, and the West more broadly, and Beijing, it is difficult to determine which is the cause, and which is the consequence, both he analysis depends on the point of view chosen.
From Washington's point of view, Taiwan is an autonomous state that protects its borders and territorial integrity from Beijing's growing claims. Recall that the Chinese President Xi Jinping made the reinstatement of Taiwan in the People's Republic of China, a decisive marker of its political action, with the creation of an army capable of supporting the comparison, or even exceeding the American military power by 2049. For almost three decades, relations with Beijing were good, to the point of causing the United States to give in to the Chinese demands of a Single China, and to refrain from participating in the modernization of the Taiwanese defense tool in order to implement a process of political reunification.
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