{"id":243248,"date":"2026-03-13T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=243248"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:22:00","slug":"us-missile-sale-to-taiwan-could-be-approved-after-trumps-visit-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/243248\/","title":{"rendered":"US missile sale to Taiwan could be approved after Trump\u2019s visit to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A major US arms package for Taiwan that includes advanced interceptor missiles is ready for President Donald Trump’s approval and could be signed after his trip to China this month, sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a price tag of about $14 billion, the arms deal ‌would be the largest ever for the island.<\/p>\n

Sources told Reuters the deal is being held under wraps ahead of Trump’s planned March 31 to April 2 trip to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Xi told Trump in February that arms sales to Taiwan must be handled with “prudence.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A major US arms package for Taiwan that includes advanced interceptor missiles is ready for President Donald Trump’s approval and could be signed after his trip to China this month, sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters. With a price tag of about $14 billion, the arms deal ‌would be the largest ever for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243249,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243248\/revisions\/243249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}