House members floated ‘bringing Starlink into Taiwan’ with island’s president

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Members of the U.S. congressional delegation in Taipei say they floated an idea to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen about bringing the Starlink satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX into Taiwan to help the island nation defend against China.

Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was part of a bipartisan delegation which met with Tsai at the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday following the Taiwan president’s return from her trip to the United States. The House members revealed that strengthening Taiwan’s defenses and working to deter a possible Chinese invasion were key topics in their closed-door meeting with Taiwan’s leader.The U.S.

McCaul said that Taiwan has a law which would require them to “make a national security exception” for Starlink, but the House chairman said that “I thought that was one of the great constructive takeaways from our private meeting, was the idea of moving the StarLink system in so they can see into the Straits and into China and better respond and have better deterrence.”

The Taiwan Space Agency announced plans in December to create its own low earth orbit satellite communications effort. A senior official at the Taiwan Space Agency reportedly said in January of this year that “we are going to spin our low-earth orbit satellite communications project off into a company.”

Musk has significant business interests in China, especially when it comes to manufacturing and selling his Tesla electric vehicles there, and he has praised the Chinese Communist Party in the past.

 

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oooo....hahahaha....

Do they know who owns Starlink?

No war with China. Stop trying to start it.

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