Military aid should pass: US lawmaker

FORUM FELLOWSHIP: Officials from around the world took part in a Taipei security forum as countries consider China’s growing threat to regional security By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source US President Donald Trump is expected to submit a US$14 billion arms package for Taiwan to the US Congress soon, US Representative Michael McCaul said in Taipei yesterday, adding that US arms sales to Taiwan would not be affected by Washington’s ties with Beijing.“I love Taiwan,” McCaul, who is a former chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in Mandarin as he started his opening speech at the 10th Ketagalan Forum on Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue.“Taiwan is proof that democracy does work,” he said, adding that while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to underm