{"id":13337,"date":"2011-09-23T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:50:10","slug":"us-declines-to-sell-new-f-16s-to-taiwan-will-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/us-declines-to-sell-new-f-16s-to-taiwan-will-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"US Declines to Sell New F-16s to Taiwan, Will Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the Obama administration has decided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/19\/world\/asia\/us-decides-against-selling-f-16s-to-taiwan.html\">against allowing Taiwan to purchase new F-16C\/Ds<\/a>, but it will allow them to purchase the material to upgrade their existing fleet of F-16A\/Bs.\u00a0 Some have called this &#8220;buckling to pressure from China,&#8221; which generally criticizes military support for what it considers a breakaway state.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the reports are true,\u201d Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said in a written statement on Friday, \u201ctoday\u2019s capitulation to Communist <!--more-->China by the Obama administration marks a sad day in American foreign policy, and it represents a slap in the face to a strong ally and longtime friend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cornyn had introduced a bill requiring the government to sell the F-16s,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>under a 1979 law that requires Washington to provide the island with arms sufficient to defend itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The aircraft would be built in his home state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>China apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/09\/ap-china-taiwan-f-16-upgrades-091911\/\">still criticized the decision<\/a> to upgrade the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, the Obama administration has decided against allowing Taiwan to purchase new F-16C\/Ds, but it will allow them to purchase the material to upgrade their existing fleet of F-16A\/Bs.\u00a0 Some have called this &#8220;buckling to pressure from China,&#8221; which generally criticizes military support for what it considers a breakaway state. \u201cIf the reports are true,\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,908,186,5285,2197,2,43,2248,1918],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-china","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-john-cornyn","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-taiwan","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}