Delicate Dance; America's Arms to Sales in Taiwan  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8752 (Sep. 2011), page 44.
Topik: Arms; Military Aircraft; Government Purchasing; International Relations; Manycountries

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America has trodden warily in its consideration of how to improve Taiwan's ageing fleet of fighter jets. Its decision, announced in Washington on September 21st, is a compromise that will avert an immediate showdown but leave Taiwan feeling hardly any more secure. The deal is to upgrade Taiwan's 145 F-16 A/B jets at a cost of $5.9 billion. The island will not, at least for the time being, get the 66 new F-16 C/D fighters that it (and some American legislators) had wanted. American officials, anxious to placate China, Taiwan and politicians at home, have been spinning this decision in ways aimed at satisfying all three parties. A sale of brand new F-16s would have been difficult for the Chinese government to ignore.

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