Training on US weapons obligated by law: general‘KNIFE EDGE OF FREEDOM’: Washington works with its allies in the first island chain to ‘provide crisis response options,’ US Army Japan Commanding General Joel Vowell saidBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerUS law prescribes that it provide training for the military systems it sells Taiwan, although its military assistance differs from that it has provided Ukraine, US Army Japan Commanding General Joel Vowell said on Thursday. US Army Japan Commanding General Joel Vowell poses for an undated photograph. “We’ve historically had a military and State Department presence through AIT [American Institute in Taiwan], and that’s generally been as required by law,” he said. The US’ Taiwan Relations Act prescribes training to use the military systems purchased by Taiwan, he added. Asked the same question in another survey, 52 percent of Americans believed China’s territorial ambitions to be a critical threat.
