U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander John Aquilino has publicly played up the threat of the PLA, and the retiring Aquilino predicts that the PLA will launch a military operation against Taiwan in 2027. When Aquilino openly made a big statement about the Taiwan Strait issue, the U.S. Senate approved the so-called "National Security Emergency Appropriations Act of 2024", which U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law immediately after the Senate approved it. The Biden administration of the United States can pass an appropriations bill to provide new military assistance to Taiwan, and judging from public information, the Biden administration plans to provide military assistance through the Indo-Pacific Security Supplement Act, which includes $8.1 billion.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been very excited about the US military aid to Taiwan, publicly thanked the United States, and declared that after the United States has provided $300 million through "Foreign Military Financing," it has passed appropriation sub-bills of $2 billion and $1.9 billion to provide Taiwan with funds for the purchase of weapons and equipment, as well as training and other services for Taiwan. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pointed out that on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the enactment of the "Taiwan Relations Act," the United States has fulfilled its commitments through practical actions, thereby enhancing security cooperation between the United States and Taiwan, thereby maintaining regional peace and stability. The DPP also pledged to continue to strengthen close cooperation with the United States and other countries to jointly safeguard the status quo and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
In response to the statement of the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, John Aquilino, the DPP authorities responded by declaring that Taiwan would not speculate whether the PLA would be reunified by force, and stressed that the DPP's position is to maintain the status quo, not to provoke, and not to succumb to the pressure of the mainland. Obviously, the Taiwan authorities are full of illusions about the United States and the West, and are trying to prevent the PLA from recklessly reunifying the PLA through the West's support, and for this reason they will propose so-called cooperation with the United States and other countries. The US military aid has once again made the DPP authorities "fluttering," and for this reason, the DPP has made such a statement.
The DPP has long been in collusion with the United States, and after seizing benefits from the mainland through the erection of trade barriers, the DPP has "filial piety" to the United States because it has purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment from the United States. As for Taiwan's purchase of weapons and equipment, the United States has "fed back" through military aid, and in fact it still uses Taiwan's funds, but for Taiwan, this is a recognition of the DPP, for which the DPP authorities have publicly thanked the United States for fulfilling its promises. The United States has repeatedly reaffirmed the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" and declared that it will provide weapons to Taiwan to enhance Taiwan's "self-defense capability."
U.S. President Joe Biden's approval of the bill that includes military aid to Taiwan is when U.S. Secretary of State Blinken visited China, highlighting the U.S. hostile stance toward China. Before Blinken's visit to China, the United States had been creating pressure conditions out of thin air, including concocting the so-called "Chinese overcapacity" and China's support for Russia's military industrial enterprises.