WASHINGTON - US business groups on Tuesday criticised the Biden administration's Taiwan arms sales policy, arguing in a public letter that it was too restrictive and failed to addressSuccessive US administrations have pushed Taiwan to modernise its military to become a"porcupine" that is hard for China to attack, advocating the sale of inexpensive, mobile, and survivable - or"asymmetric" - weapons that could outlast any initial assault by China's larger military.
Capabilities that do not apply to this scenario will be denied, including those that address China's ongoing coercive gray zone activities in Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone , the groups said, referring to a dramatic increase in Chinese military sorties near Taiwan in the past two years, seen as an attempt to exhaust Taiwan's forces.