For the past three months I’ve been pressing my colleagues to significantly strengthen the weapons systems provided to Taiwan so it can prevail in a conflict in the Taiwan Strait (“How Joe Biden Can Deter China,” Review & Outlook, Nov. 18).

The national security supplemental request that the White House sent to Congress in October fails to do this. Out of $106 billion, there is a mere $5.4 billion to deal with the aggressive Chinese Communist Party, which is undertaking the largest peacetime military buildup in history with a clear goal of conquering Taiwan.