US Decouples Taiwan Arms Sales From Iran Diplomacy, Source Says
🇹🇼 BEIJING — Washington just said Taiwan arms aren't a chip in the Iran game. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The working assumption was Washington might slow-walk Taiwan arms to buy Chinese pressure on Tehran. A US source explicitly decoupling the two removes Beijing's clearest incentive to act. With Trump's NSC pause active and Doha stalled, China now has less reason to push Khamenei — the one lever Washington needed most just got publicly taken off the table.
