Acting Navy Secretary explains that the U.S. can't ship armaments to Taiwan because it needs to prepare for more IRAN bombardment

 BBC / world news

The U.S. Pentagon (Secy. Hegseth)

needs to pause its arms sale to the

sovereign, Democratic state of

Taiwan;

Hung Cao (acting

Navy Secy.) - who replaced

former Navy Admiral fired

by Hegseth

told U.S. Senate armed forces

committee, "We're doing a pause. . ."