{"id":2002,"date":"2019-06-21T06:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:14:48","slug":"taiwan-proposed-deal-to-buy-tanks-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/taiwan-proposed-deal-to-buy-tanks-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan proposed deal to buy tanks from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Taiwan<\/strong> plans to propose a deal\nto buy tanks<\/strong> and portable missiles from the U.S.<\/strong>This\nproposal by Taiwan drew an angry\nrebuke from China. <\/strong>Taiwan\u2019s Defence Ministry requested the\nUS for 108 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, more than 1,500 Javelin and TOW\nanti-tank missiles, and 250 shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles in\nthe proposal formally.
\nThe U.S. government, on the other hand, has\ngiven Congress informal notification of its plan to sell the equipment in a\ndeal worth $2\nbillion.<\/strong>

One-China\npolicy:<\/strong>
\nChina has asked the U.S. to understand that its\ndecision to sell arms to Taiwan might cause problems between China and Taiwan\nas it is expected Taiwan to abide by the One China principle. 
\nOne-China policy says that there is only one\ncountry of China with the official name of China, despite the fact that there\nare two governments namely the People’s\nRepublic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).<\/strong>
\nDespite being ruled separately since the end of\na civil war in 1949, China still views Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to\ntake the island, by force if necessary.
\nIf China announces war on Taiwan<\/strong>, the country\noutgunned in terms of troop\nnumbers and firepower.<\/strong>Hence, Taiwan is in need to upgrade much\nof its equipment. Its current tank force consists of around 1,000 CM 11 Brave Tiger and M60A3\ntanks,<\/strong> a technology that is increasingly obsolete.

Past\nTaiwan and US deal:<\/strong>
\nThe U.S. government announced plans in 2018 to\nsell spare parts worth $330\nmillion <\/strong>to Taiwan for its U.S. made F-16 fighter jets <\/strong>and C-130 military transport planes<\/strong>.\nTaiwan has also submitted a formal request to Washington for new fighter jets\nto upgrade its air force but the US had not made any open response yet.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taiwan plans to propose a deal to buy tanks and portable missiles from the U.S.This proposal by Taiwan drew an angry rebuke from China. Taiwan\u2019s Defence Ministry requested the US for 108 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, more than 1,500 Javelin and TOW anti-tank missiles, and 250 shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles in the proposal formally. The U.S. government, on the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}