Taiwan Hai Lung-class submarine in 2009
Shipping the $19 billion arms backlog that the U.S. has approved for Taiwan’s defense is even more important now in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a key Republican lawmaker said Wednesday.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, used that figure to say the United States is “behind in what we need to provide for Taiwan.”
The sale of those arms – including the Harpoon over-the-horizon long-range anti-ship missiles –...