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US to provide significant additional military aid to Taiwan — Pentagon

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin did not specify what types of weapons will be included into the package

WASHINGTON, May 16. /TASS/. The United States is set to provide "significant additional security assistance" to Taiwan, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday.

"The United States will soon provide significant additional security assistance to Taiwan through [the] presidential drawdown authority that Congress authorized last year," Austin told the US Senate Committee on Appropriations.

He did not specify what types of weapons will be included into the package.

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