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Taiwan thanks US for aid package, says gesture will ‘safeguard peace’
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Taiwan will work with the United States to "safeguard peace and freedom" in the region, the island's premier said on Monday, after Washington approved billions in military aid for Taipei in the face of an increasingly assertive China.