Since the Taiwanese government has failed to get the NT$480 billion (US$15 billion) special arms budget approved in the legislature, some analysts have begun to warn that Taiwan could lose its status as a place of major strategic importance for the US in East Asia. Some experts are saying that the US could withdraw its security commitments to Taiwan if the people of the democratic nation decide not to take visible steps to defend their country against the possibility of a military attack from China.
“The US has been impatient at the government’s inability to get the special arms bill passed,” Chang Kuo-cheng (ºµÂúãÂüé), the former director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s department of Chinese affairs, said.
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