US Aims to Stockpile Matériel in Taiwan

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Edward Wong and John Ismay, US Bolstering Taiwan Muscle Against China; Enabling a territory to defend itself until help arrives. New York Times, Oct 6, 2022, at page A1
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/ ... -weapons-china.html
https://theprint.ae/u-s-aims-to- ... iant-weapons-depot/

Note:
(a)
(i) Translation does not appear in cn.nytimes.com, which lately is a bit slow and few in translation.
(ii) The .ae is national domain name (formally: "country code Top Level Domain or ccTLD") for United Arab Emirates.
(iii) The print does not have "More on U.S. Armed Forces" heading, which appears in the .ae version.

(b) "Eric Wertheim, a defense consultant and author of 'The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World' "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Wertheim

(c) "Jessica Chen Weiss, a professor of government at Cornell University"
(i) Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies
https://government.cornell.edu/jessica-chen-weiss
("is an associate professor of [Department of] Government at Cornell University * * * Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and * * * an undergraduate at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2008, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics")
(ii) Her personal website says, "From August 2021 to July 2022, she [referring self in third person] served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS).

The "Secretary" alludes to Secretary of State.
(iii) IAF-TIRS stands for "International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars."
https://www.cfr.org/fellowships/ ... -relations-scholars
("The International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) for Tenured International Relations Scholars, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, offers tenured academics from a variety of scholarly backgrounds practical experience in the foreign policy-making field. The fellowship is geared toward professors whose research and teaching are connected to peace and security issues and who seek a twelve-month placement at a US federal government agency, in Congress, or with an international organization. * * * The [Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)] program also benefits policymakers by exposing them to critical scholarly research relevant to the foreign policy and national security issues facing the United States and the world. * * * Fellows must arrange a paid sabbatical with their home universities. The program will match 50 percent of the fellow's base salary for the academic year at their university (up to a maximum of $80,000 for the year) as well as provide modest assistance for moving expenses for those who need to relocate for the fellowship. Fellows are considered independent contractors rather than employees of CFR and are not eligible for employment benefits, including health insurance. No indirect costs can be deducted from the stipend award.   CFR will assist selected fellows in finding a suitable placement for their fellowship year. However, all placements are made at the discretion of the host institution. CFR cannot guarantee placement at any particular agency, office, or organization.   Fellows seeking to spend the fellowship year working at a US government agency likely will need to obtain a security clearance")

In sum, Carnegie Corporation of New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Corporation_of_New_York
(table: Methods        Grant-giving, Revenue (2018) $253 million, Expenses (2018) $180 million, Endowment (2018) $3.5 billion")
sponsors IAF-TIRS, and CFR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
(think tank)
pays half of salary.
(iv) She looks like a typical East Asian, but her biological father is
Noel S Weiss. Prabook, undated
https://prabook.com/web/noel_s.weiss/3538585
(born in 1943 in Chicago; Education: "Bachelor, Stanford University, 1965; Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1967; Master in Public Health, Harvard University, 1969; Doctor of Public Health, Harvard University, 1971"/ "professor, U Washington, Seattle, since 1973"/ "Married Chu Chen, October 12, 1980. Children: Jessica, Jeremy")