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“The right-wing government in Poland and its leading party PiS (Law and Justice) has been for years very critical of Germany's policies in many respects — including in defense,” said Marek Świerczyński, a defense analyst at Polityka Insight.

Taiwan’s Patriot missiles are getting a maintenance package of NT$2.52 billion (US$84.1 million) over four-and-a-half years from the US, a notification about the deal issued by the Ministry of National Defense showed on Thursday. The US Department of State in February approved the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s request to offer a maintenance package for Taiwanese Patriot PAC-2/GEM and Patriot PAC-3 missile defense systems, said a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity...

US DEAL INKED: Next year’s defense budget would be NT$15.4bn higher than this year’s, while the long-term plan to service Patriot systems would cost NT$2.52bn, sources saidBy Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Chinese analyst Chen Zengming, in an article published June 25, 2022, in the Chinese media outlet Reference News Network, titled "China Cannot Develop Itself, While Holding A Powder Keg," on Taiwan's "asymmetrical combat power," wrote that China must not take Taiwan's "asymmetrical combat power" lightly.

Republicans are frustrated by RNC move reopening party’s January 6 divide ahead of midterms

The United States has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of military equipment and services, including engineering services to support the Patriot missile defense system, for an estimated cost of