The state of U.S. military aid to Taiwan is out of balance, according to U.S.-Taiwan Business Council President Rupert Hammond-Chambers, Business Insider reported on Wednesday.
Although the U.S. has sent Taiwan an increasing number of asymmetric weapons intended to help deter and defeat a potential Chinese invasion, Taiwan needs a more balanced arsenal of systems to counter other scenarios, such as a sustained blockade, Hammond-Chambers argued at a Hudson Institute think tank event earlier this month.
He said that U.S. weapons sales have “swung from one extreme” — the arms deals years ago for MQ-9 Reaper drones, M1A2 Abrams tanks, and F-16 Fighting Falcon jets — “to the other extreme where we’re only doing asymmetric,” a shift he warned leaves potential vulnerabilities.
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