Arm Taiwan to Prevent a Future Hong Kong

Taiwan war planes are parked on a highway during an exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on its airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan on May 28, 2019. Military News Agency via AP

Commentary

The Trump administration on Aug. 20 notified the Congress of its intention to sell 66 new Lockheed-Martin F-16V fighters to Taiwan. While the previous George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations refused to sell F-16V fighters to Taiwan, President Donald Trump is now returning to the longstanding bipartisan foreign policy of selling necessary weapons to Taiwan.