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The US makes a Taiwan NMESIS missile mess for China

While it has yet to finalize a $14 billion arms deal with Taiwan, the Trump administration is delivering a needed boost to deterrence against China. It is doing so with an anti-ship missile deployment to Japan’s westernmost island, Yonaguni

Republican Ledger staff · 1:34 PM ET

The US makes a Taiwan NMESIS missile mess for China
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While it has yet to finalize a $14 billion arms deal with Taiwan, the Trump administration is delivering a needed boost to deterrence against China. It is doing so with an anti-ship missile deployment to Japan’s westernmost island, Yonaguni.

That island is just 60 nautical miles from Taiwan. Japanese media report that NMESIS will arrive […]

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