By Wendell Minnick
TAIPEI — Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised concerns over scheduled negotiations in July for a new United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that could cripple U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.
The U.S. is Taiwan’s sole source for sophisticated arms, such as fighter jets and command-and-control systems. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed all overseas offices to gather data on ATT developments, said Lily Hsu, the ministry’s director-general of international organizations.
The ATT would require signatories to control their imports and exports of arms and not to circumvent the import control systems of other countries.
Since China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, it could argue that the U.S. must no longer provide arms under the new ATT rules, said Dean Cheng, a China specialist at the Heritage Foundation.
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