U.S. Army gunners during an exercise. File photoMOSCOW, May 2The United States is delaying arms deliveries to Taiwan as its military-industrial complex is overwhelmed by the situation in Ukraine, the South China Morning Post reports, citing the Taiwanese Defense Ministry. In August 2021, the US State Department approved a $750 million military aid package for Taiwan. The delivery of 40 M109A6 self-propelled howitzers, known as Paladin, was expected by Taiwan in 2023. According to the newspaper, the delivery of howitzers will be delayed until 2026. -Lize for Kyiv, providing for a simplified procedure for the transfer of equipment and weapons to Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe. UkraineIn turn, the Chinese Embassy in Washington said last week that the United States should stop supplying Taiwan with weapons. According to Chinese diplomats, Beijing reserves the right to respond if it intervenes in the situation around the island. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces, which were defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, led with Chiang Kai-shek 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. It hasn't been delivered yet.» What weapons will Ukraine receive from the West
