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China is holding up high-level talks with the Pentagon as President Donald Trump weighs whether to approve a proposed $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, the Financial Times reported.<\/p>\n

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Beijing has delayed approval for a proposed summer visit by the Pentagon\u2019s undersecretary of defense for policy until Trump decides how to proceed with the Taiwan weapons package, the\u00a0FT\u00a0reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the talks. The proposed package includes Patriot interceptor missiles and NASAMS advanced surface-to-air missiles, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

The dispute puts the Trump administration in the middle of a growing test between keeping military communication channels open with Beijing and moving forward with weapons sales aimed at strengthening Taiwan\u2019s defenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs President Trump said, he will make a determination in a fairly short time regarding a new Taiwan arms package,\u201d a White House official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

Chinese officials pushed back on Thursday as the U.S. government considered the weapons sales.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChina\u2019s opposition to any official exchanges between the U.S. and China\u2019s Taiwan region, and the U.S.\u2019s arms sales to Taiwan is consistent, clear and rock-firm,\u201d Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a press conference on Thursday. \u201cChina urges the U.S. to implement the important common understandings between our two leaders, honor its commitments and statements, exercise extra caution in handling the Taiwan question, stop sending any wrong message to \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 separatist forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Taiwanese military conducts a drill simulating an enemy landing using M109A2 howitzers, part of the annual Han Kuang exercises, in Tainan on July 14, 2025. (Photo by I-HWA CHENG\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Members of the U.S. Senate have recently been pushing the Trump administration to commit to selling the weapons package to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strongly encourage your administration to formally notify the $14 billion in U.S. arms sales to Taiwan that Congress pre-approved in January 2025,\u201d several senators wrote in a joint letter on May 11, pushing for the finalization of the deal.<\/p>\n

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On Dec. 17, 2025, the State Department approved a sale to the \u201cTaipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO) of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $4.05 billion,\u201d according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.<\/p>\n

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Trump recently made the public aware of his intentions to hold a call with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019ll speak to him. I speak to everybody,\u201d Trump said at Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One, according to Reuters. \u201cWe have that situation very well in hand. We had a great meeting with President Xi. It was amazing, actually. It was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. government is required by law to provide the means for Taiwan to defend itself, according to the Taiwan Relations Act, passed in 1979.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability,\u201d according to Section 3301 of the act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese are well aware that President Trump is not going to end arms sales to Taiwan, but their ultimate goal is to delay the announcement of another major arms package until after Xi Jinping\u2019s late September state visit to Washington,\u201d the Financial Times reported, citing Dennis Wilder, a former top CIA China expert. \u201cIt is less a test of Trump\u2019s commitment to assisting with Taiwan\u2019s defence than an effort to save Xi any embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The administration had planned to notify Congress about the arms sales in February. It delayed the decision after criticism from Beijing, FT reported.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been expanding diplomatic and military communications with China in an effort to stabilize the region.<\/p>\n

Alvaro Smith, the deputy assistant secretary of war for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, met with People\u2019s Republic of China Maj. Gen. Ye Jiang in Washington on Dec. 15, 2025, to discuss the communication with Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cDASW Smith reiterated the Department of War\u2019s support for a wider range of military-to-military communications with the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) with the goal of supporting strategic stability as well as crisis deconfliction and de-escalation, more broadly,\u201d a press release covering the meeting stated. \u201cDASW Smith explained how such lines of communication align with and help to reinforce ongoing efforts by President Trump to achieve a stable peace and respectful relations between the United States and China.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his first term, President Trump approved more arms sales to Taiwan than any other President in history,\u201d the White House official told the DCNF. \u201cIn his second term, President Trump approved more in his first year than all four years under President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this communication with adversarial powers does not mean a de-escalation of weapons development.<\/p>\n

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the United States would resume the testing of nuclear weapons to modernize the U.S. nuclear triad of air-, land- and sea-launched nuclear munitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will develop additional options to support deterrence and escalation management, and we will never allow this nation to be left vulnerable to nuclear blackmail, even in a world where we face two other major nuclear-armed powers,\u201d Hegseth said during remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Dec. 6, 2025. \u201cAnd we will test nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems on an equal basis as others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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