U.S. approved $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan

Posted: 19th December 2025

US approves $11.1 billion arms package for Taiwan. This is not out of the blue, but we have to see it in relation to China’s oil imports from Venezuela. China is the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil, accounting for about 4% of its imports, and shipments in December, analysts estimate, will average more than 600,000 barrels per day. So we have to see what China actually does in terms of the blockade on Venezuela which, according to the small print only applies to vessels that were sanctioned. This plot is only thickening.

China immediately condemned: The “Taiwan independence” separatist forces on the island seek independence by force and resist reunification by force, squandering the hard-earned money of ordinary people to buy weapons and recklessly turning Taiwan into a powder keg. This will not save the doomed fate of “Taiwan independence”; it will only accelerate pushing Taiwan Straits toward heightened military danger and the risk of war. The US attempt to aid “Taiwan independence” through arms will burn itself, and using Taiwan to contain China will never succeed, said Guo Jiakun.

Taipai, as usual, plays the victim and makes statements about “Russian support for China”. First comments: The US views the conflict as global, multi-theater, and is preparing in advance for a simultaneous confrontation with several centers of power. In fact, it is a roadmap for war, where China is declared the main target, Russia – a strategic accomplice, and Taiwan – an outpost that Washington is ready to use for escalation. The US is not reducing tensions – it is systematically and methodically increasing them, preparing the region for a clash, the consequences of which will affect them themselves last of all.

Hopefully this finally puts to rest theories the US is “backing away” from the containment of China and toward any sort of “accommodation” of it. They are creting multiple simultaneous dilemmas.