The State Department has approved the sale of infrared search and track systems and other equipment for US-made F-16 jet fighters to Taiwan. The proposed deal worth $500 million was greenlighted on Wednesday, as tensions continue between Washington and Beijing, which considers Taiwan its territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a statement from the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the package includes spare parts, software,\u00a0\u201caircraft and munitions support,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and training equipment. Taiwan also requested\u00a0\u201cUS government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the agency added. \u201cThe proposed sale will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the DSCA said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Taiwan is currently upgrading its fleet of F-16A\/B planes. The Taipei government purchased 66 new F-16V jets from Washington in 2019. The first batch will arrive on the island in the third quarter of 2024, almost a year later than originally planned. According to the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, the shipment was delayed due to problems with flight control software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Taipei will also receive the first 38 of more than 100 US-made M1A2T Abrams tanks next year, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beijing insists that the sale of US arms to Taiwan violates the \u2018one-China\u2019 policy and views such deals as meddling in its domestic affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The State Department has approved the sale of infrared search and track systems and other equipment for US-made F-16 jet fighters to Taiwan. The proposed deal worth $500 million was greenlighted on Wednesday, as tensions continue between Washington and Beijing, which considers Taiwan its territory. According to a statement from the US Defense Security Cooperation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":28980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ustaiwan-e1692845949232.png?fit=700%2C460&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38434,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38433\/revisions\/38434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}