{"id":8390,"date":"2019-08-21T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:09:07","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-66-f-16-fighters-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8390","title":{"rendered":"US Approves Sale of 66 F-16 Fighters to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">The United Stated State Department has approved the sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan, in a move expected to anger Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Taiwan will get the latest version of the Lockheed Martin-built fighter, the F-16C\/D Block 70, in the 8 billion dollar deal, the State Department announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Before the announcement, US President Donald Trump declared that &#8220;somebody had to take China on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, a Republican, welcomed the sale, saying &#8220;these fighters are critical to improving Taiwan&#8217;s ability to defend its sovereign airspace, which is under increasing pressure from the People&#8217;s Republic of China&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s plan to upgrade its air defences comes amid increasing Chinese military incursions into its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing regards Taiwan as a part of China awaiting reunification, but the island is self-ruled and is a close ally of the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Stated State Department has approved the sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan, in a move expected to anger Beijing. Taiwan will get the latest version of the Lockheed Martin-built fighter, the F-16C\/D Block 70, in the 8 billion dollar deal, the State Department announced on Tuesday. Before the announcement, US President Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8391,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions\/8391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}