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US 'to consider sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan'
04:45 AM Apr 29, 2012
The Obama administration will give "serious consideration" to selling Taiwan new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, a White House official said yesterday.
This creates a potential new flashpoint with China ahead of next week's high-level meetings between United States and Chinese officials.
In a letter, the White House's director of legislative affairs Robert Nabors said a jet sale "warrants serious consideration given the growing military threat to Taiwan".
The Obama administration plans to decide on a "near-term course of action on how to address Taiwan's fighter gap, including through the sale to Taiwan of an undetermined number of new US-made fighter aircraft," Mr Nabors wrote.
A spokesman for Taiwan's representative office in Washington said he did not know whether Taiwan had been notified of a potential sale, while spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington Geng Shuang said: "The Chinese position of opposing US arms sales to Taiwan has been consistent, clear and firm." Bloomberg
TODAYonline | Hot News | US 'to consider sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan'
04:45 AM Apr 29, 2012
The Obama administration will give "serious consideration" to selling Taiwan new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, a White House official said yesterday.
This creates a potential new flashpoint with China ahead of next week's high-level meetings between United States and Chinese officials.
In a letter, the White House's director of legislative affairs Robert Nabors said a jet sale "warrants serious consideration given the growing military threat to Taiwan".
The Obama administration plans to decide on a "near-term course of action on how to address Taiwan's fighter gap, including through the sale to Taiwan of an undetermined number of new US-made fighter aircraft," Mr Nabors wrote.
A spokesman for Taiwan's representative office in Washington said he did not know whether Taiwan had been notified of a potential sale, while spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington Geng Shuang said: "The Chinese position of opposing US arms sales to Taiwan has been consistent, clear and firm." Bloomberg
TODAYonline | Hot News | US 'to consider sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan'