Taiwan Army soldiers during training. File photoMOSCOW, May 25.The United States takes into account the experience of equipping Ukraine with weapons when trying to rebuild Taiwan's defense system, the New York Times writes, citing sources. US President Joe Biden, at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on May 23, announced the readiness of US military participation in the defense of Taiwan «in case intrusions.» Later, NBC reported, the White House clarified that Biden was referring to the supply of weapons for the island's self-defense. «The goal is to turn Taiwan into what some officials call a 'porcupine'» territory teeming with weapons and other forms of U.S. support and too painful to attack,» the newspaper writes. The publication claims that Washington intends to increase its military presence in the region to try to contain a «potential attack» on Taiwan from the PRC, which has one of Taiwan's Defense Minister Qiu Guozheng said earlier that if war breaks out between Beijing and Taipei, it will end in tragedy for both sides, no matter who wins. He emphasized that «no one wants war.» Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. its commitment to Taiwan jeopardizes cooperation between the two countries. According to Beijing, the United States has repeatedly tried to play the «Taiwan card» for some time, violating its commitments on the Taiwan issue and «sending the wrong signals to the separatist forces.» These US actions threaten peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
