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Rubio: Taiwan arms sales constrained by US needs, industrial base
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · East Asia
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are in part constrained by Washington’s potential military needs in other parts of the world and the industrial base. “People think … we view arm sales through the limited vacuum of the one particular place. A lot of this also involves balancing…
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