The transitional state in which the US system of governance finds itself today leaves the main players in the game around the Taiwan issue in considerable confusion.

The latest activities of the Biden Administration

This is especially true for the external aspects of US policy and, above all, for relations with China, in which one of the main problems is precisely Taiwan. NEO has written about the fact that Joe Biden signed at the end of November the 6th in 2024 (and the 18th during his entire presidency) contract for the supply of some weapons systems to Taiwan, as less than a month later the Taipei Times (citing Reuters) reported on Biden’s instruction to the State Department to “manage through the Defense Department” the implementation of two more similar deals for a total of about $900 million.

This action, like similar previous ones, fits into the format of the thesis “on the need to counteract the growing threat of Chinese invasion of Taiwan,” which has been constantly among the top issues broadcast in the American information space lately. In particular, the topic corresponding to this thesis was one of the main topics of the latest report of the Defense Department which appeared in mid-December, under the general title “Military Development of the PRC,” which has been given to Congress annually over the last two decades.

Like all previous deals on the sale of American weapons to Taiwan, this deal also did not go without the expected comments from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as well as Chinese experts, who expressed their opinion not only verbally, but also in memes. In particular, attention is focused on the motive of creating difficulties in the implementation of attempts by the next administration to make any adjustments to US policy in the Chinese direction in general and in the Taiwan problem in particular.

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