Taiwan is finally getting much-needed help from the United States to fight its spiraling coronavirus outbreak.
But to Beijing, the offer is a major provocation that risks escalating both cross-strait and US-China relations.
A delegation of US senators visited Taiwan on Sunday morning local time to announce the donation of 750,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called the vaccines "timely rain" for the island, which has only vaccinated 3% of its population and on Saturday recorded its highest daily Covid death toll of 37 fatalities.
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WNU Editor: Using a military aircraft to fly to Taiwan for a 3-hour visit instead of a commercial plane to just make an announcement that the US will be donating 750,000 vaccines is a bit too much. It is obvious to me that this was done deliberately to provoke a Chinese response .... which it did.
Update: Here is China state media's reaction to this US trip and vaccine donation .... How should mainland react to C-17 strategic aircraft landing in Taiwan? (Global Times editorial).
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