The United States Congress Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 17US senators have introduced a bill aimed at providing military assistance to Taiwan in the amount of $ 4.5 billion over the next four years, follows from the published materials of the foreign relations committee of the upper house of the US Congress. In addition to funds to strengthen the defense capabilities of the island, the document provides support Taiwan to participate in international organizations, strengthen trade ties and recognize it as the main ally outside of NATO. It is also expected to impose economic sanctions against China in the event of its hostile actions against Taiwan.The US is ready to start a small nuclear war over TaiwanThe Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 was sponsored by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and his Republican counterpart Lindsey Graham.» The Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 is a founding statement of the United States' absolute commitment stay with Taiwan and with all those who share our interests and values in the face of military, economic and political threats from Beijing,» Menendez said. Graham, in turn, noted that the bill represents the largest strengthening of bilateral relations between the United States and Taiwan in the military and economic direction over the past decades.In Taiwan, they assured that they were ready for equal cooperation with the PRC. In June, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe warned that China would fight at all costs and to the very end to resist attempts to separate the island from China. The United States does not legally recognize Taiwan's independence, but provides it with military support .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. called Biden's words about military assistance to Taiwan bravado
