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ملخص

The United States is Taiwan's principal arms supplier and security reference point, selling under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act — a domestic American statute rather than a bilateral treaty, which is the structural point. In December 2025 the administration notified Congress of more than eleven billion dollars in new Foreign Military Sales cases, the largest single package by value in the history of the relationship. In mid-May 2026 the President said publicly that he had not approved a further package, reported at around fourteen billion, that the decision depended on China, and that it was a good negotiating chip. The two together are the record: the supply is large, it is governed by American domestic process, and in 2026 it was openly described as an element in a negotiation with the other party. Deliveries on older cases continued meanwhile: the first two F-16 Block 70 fighters of a 2019 case arrived on 2 October 2026, while the larger package remained under review.

لماذا يهم

Taiwan's defence planning assumes a supplier whose decisions are made in another country's political calendar and, in 2026, explicitly with reference to relations with Beijing. That makes the delivery pipeline a political variable rather than a logistical one, and it is why this module treats American arms decisions as an observable in their own right.

الاتفاقات

• Taiwan Relations Act · وُقّع في 1979

  A domestic United States statute, not a bilateral agreement and not a defence commitment. It provides the legal basis for arms sales and for unofficial relations, and obliges no particular response to an attack.

الأحداث ذات الصلة

• أكبر حزمة أسلحة أمريكية أُخطر بها لتايوان على الإطلاق ديسمبر 2025

  Weapons deliveries · Diplomatic

• إغلاق صفقة أبرامز — اكتمال سلّم التسليم أبريل 2026

  تسليم الأسلحة

• حجب حزمة بقيمة 14 مليار دولار بوصفها «ورقة تفاوض» 2026

  Weapons deliveries · Diplomatic

• وصول أول طائرتين جديدتي الصنع من طراز F-16 Block 70 — صفقة تبلغ مرحلة التسليم 2 أكتوبر 2026

  تسليم الأسلحة

المنظمات

البنى التي تعمل هذه العلاقة من خلالها. ليست أطرافًا فيها — فالطرفان هما الجهتان الفاعلتان المذكورتان أعلاه.

ما لا يزال مجهولًا

• Vigil publishes no quantities, delivery schedules, backlogs or inventory figures. Notification, approval, contracting and delivery are four different stages and reporting frequently conflates them; this record does not attempt to reconcile them.
• The status of the reported $14bn package at the time of review is not resolved, and no source establishes what would release it.
• Training and advisory activity is described at the level of published reporting. Its scale, locations and content are not recorded here.

قراءات تدعمها الأدلة أيضًا

• The 2026 handling can be read as a transactional approach that has devalued a deterrent resting on belief, or as a negotiating posture with no effect on what is eventually delivered. The distinction is not resolvable from outside and matters more than the dollar figures.

مُدرجة لأن تقييم السجل نفسه ليس التقييم الوحيد الذي تسمح به مصادره — لا بوصفها تحوّطًا من التقييم أعلاه.