日媒披露美台拟合作生产武器

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(1) 日媒披露美台拟合作生产武器. Radio Free Asia, Oct 20, 2022
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yat ... 10202022081826.html
("美海军作战部长吉尔迪上将（Michael Gilday）也指出，不排除中共今年攻台可能性")

Note: The quotation does not come from Nikkei Asia. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral Michael Gilday, is the top-ranked naval officer but below the civilian Secretary of Navy. Not found in the Navy;s website (www.navy.mil), Gilday's Oct 19, 2022 speech touching Taiwan was reported by, among others,
Mallory Shelbourne, China's Accelerated Timeline to Take Taiwan Pushing Navy in the Pacific, Says CNO Gilday. USNI News, Oct 19, 2022
https://news.usni.org/2022/10/19 ... fic-says-cno-gilday
("Mike Gilday said at a virtual event hosted by the Atlantic Council")
I have doubts (that China is capable of invading Taiwan). The context of Gilday's talk is that the Biden administration wants to retire old warships but Congress disagrees, in the lead-up to the enactment of (fiscal year) FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. See
Sam LaGrone, White House 'Strongly Opposes' Navy Provisions in FY 2023 Senate Defense Bill. USNI, Oct 19, 2022.
https://news.usni.org/2022/10/19 ... senate-defense-bill


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(2) Ryō Nakamura, US in Talks with Taiwan to Coproduce American Weapons: Sources; New cooperation would expedite delivery to island as China steps up military pressure. Nikkei Asia, Oct 19, 2022 (updated on Oct 20, 2022).
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics ... can-weapons-sources

Note:
(a) Ryō Nakamura 中村 遼 is Nikkei's Washington Correspondent. The kanji 遼 means distant (in Japan).
(b) "A person with direct knowledge of the matter acknowledged that initial discussions on joint US-Taiwan production had begun. * * * 'This is going to take some time to really shake out,' said another source, adding that the process is likely to continue throughout 2023."

shake out (phrasal verb): "mainly US  to change over a period of time before a final result is known  <We have to wait and see how it all shakes out>"
Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/shake-out
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