The Times:

America is expected to supply Taiwan with new advanced weapons and technology to combat the surge in Chinese drone invasions of Taiwanese air space.

The US state department is drawing up an arms package worth $1.1 billion for Taiwan under its foreign military sales programme.

With the recent appearance of Chinese drones close to Taiwanese islands, US defence sources said it was reasonable to expect that counter-measure systems would be included in the arms shipment.

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