Deployed within 2 minutes of host of PRC ordnance. This is the kind of expensive platforms US doesn't want TW to pursue because it's a money sink relative to in

Deployed within 2 minutes of host of PRC ordnance. This is the kind of expensive platforms US doesn't want TW to pursue because it's a money sink relative to insurgent porcupine capabilties - to the point of vetoing TW military purchase decisions that doesn't contribute to US vision/strategy for TW - one where TW fight like insurgents and get droned to dust. At the end of the day, it's about domestic politics, expensive high tech platforms provides politicians photo ops of a modern military that might have a chance to ignorant voters vs adopting strategy to convincing constituents to get slaughtered like Taliban. Ergo TW continusouly developing mid/high tier indigenous platforms while seeking to import other flashy weapons that won't survive the first hours of a cross-strait air campaign.