The Trump administration has announced a huge arms sale worth around $11bn (£8.2bn) to Taiwan, which includes advanced rocket launchers, self-propelled howitzers and a variety of missiles.
This package, which still needs to be approved by the US Congress, will be the second arms sale to Taiwan since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.
China, which sees self-governed Taiwan as a breakaway province, has steadily ramped up pressure over the island with military drills and regular incursions into its waters and airspace.
Taiwan's defence ministry thanked the US on Thursday, saying the deal would help the island in "rapidly building robust deterrence capabilities".
The US has formal diplomatic ties with Beijing rather than Taiwan and has walked a tight diplomatic rope for decades. But it remains a powerful ally of Taiwan's and the island's biggest arms supplier.
