TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's once-strained relations with the United States are back on track after the Bush administration approved a long-delayed $6.5 billion package of weapons to help the island defend itself against China.... ...full story at AP
from AP on Wed, Oct 08 2008
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