TAIPEI — President Bush is committed to an $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said Wednesday, amid reports that the U.S. is freezing such sales to the island to avoid angering China. Wolfowitz, a former World Bank chief, is now the chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, a nonprofit organization working to develop trade and business between the United States and Taiwan. He made his comments a week after the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific confirmed the freeze on U.S. arms sales in Taiwan. Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened war if the island moves to make its 1949 break from China permanent. Wolfowitz told reporters in Taipei that Bush is committed to the arms package the administration approved in April 2001, two months after...
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