The “Foreign Military Financing Program” aid of $80 million just controversially announced for Taiwan, is being taken directly from Egypt by the Biden Administration. This looks like attempted punishment of Egypt for having joined the BRICS, and will undoubtedly have that effect on Egypt’s relations with the United States. The nation is increasingly industrializing and developing nuclear power capabilities by cooperation with Russia, China and India.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 16 that the United States will withhold $85 million in annual military aid given to Egypt under Foreign Military Financing (out of a much larger total of $1.3 billion), and redirect almost exactly that amount to Taiwan under that same program, which is reserved for aid to countries the United States treats as sovereign nations. Taiwan is a part of China, and China strongly and officially denounced that aid.
So much for Biden’s “re-stabilization” of the U.S. relationship with China which is supposed to be ongoing. The excuse given for taking the funding from Egypt, is “human rights abuses.”
Some members of Congress, reports the Journal, want all $320 million of FMF aid scheduled for Egypt to be taken away, with more of it allocated to Taiwan.
