February 27, 2025 ☼ china ☼ taiwan ☼ trump
Source: NPR (Link)
The U.S. government has quietly unfrozen about $870 million in security assistance programs for Taiwan, according to two officials familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
It is a significant move amid dramatic cuts to foreign assistance by the Trump administration, reductions which have faced a flurry of legal challenges. On Wednesday evening, just hours before a midnight deadline, the Supreme Court’s chief justice paused a federal judge’s order to disperse some $2 billion in frozen foreign aid.
This was not a result of Trump thinking about Taiwan, rather it was a case of the cuts being restored by the courts.