The move is likely to anger Beijing at a time when the US has been attempting to reset its relationship with China . The package includes selfdefense capabilities that Taiwan will be able to use to build to bolster deterrence now and in the future . This is the first time the U.S. has transferred equipment to Taiwan under the Presidential Drawdown Authority allowing the US to pull the weapons and other stocks directly from Defense Department inventories . Just like many of the weapons deliveries to Ukraine this process accelerates the transfer of inventory . Taiwans Ministry of National Defense expressed gratitude to the US for its firm security commitment to Taiwan in a statement Saturday . The announcement did not detail its contents as such announcements often do with Ukraine aid packages . The Taiwan Economic and Cultural Representative Office declined to comment . In early May the islands defense minister Chiu KuoCheng said Taiwan was in talks for a fasttracked million weapons package . In June Secretary of State Antony Blinken became the first top US diplomat to visit Beijing in five years to visit China in five-year-old visit to Beijing in 5 years to the United States in 5-month-old China visit to China in 5th month-old Chinese visit to the country in 6-month visit to Taiwan . The move was delayed in part because of an accounting error that forced administration officials to recount the value of the equipment provided to Taipei in 6 months-old report to Taiwan. The package was delayed because of accounting error. In August. The U.N. Secretary of state Antony Blumben became a . Chinese visitor to Beijing. The US. to China. to Taiwan was the first Chinese visitor in six-month trip to Beijing to China’s visit to Washington’
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