U.S Taiwan Sign A Massive 66 F-16 Deal – Free PDF Download

THE GREAT GAME BETWEEN U.S CHINA

• The US has maintained close ties with Taiwan since it split from mainland China in 1949 after the end of a bloody civil war.
• But until recently Washington has avoided major displays of friendship so as to not antagonize Beijing, which continues to view the self-governing democracy of around 24 million people as an inseparable part of its territory.

THE GREAT BLUNDER OF 1979

• The U.S. ceased recognizing the ROC in 1979 as “China” and started referring to it as “Taiwan”.
• Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter
• Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, meets President Jimmy Carter, and together they sign historic new accords that reverse decades of U.S. opposition to the People’s Republic of China.

U.SCORRECTING PAST MISTAKES

• United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar touched down in Taiwan recently
• The trip by Azar –the highest-ranking American official to visit the island since 1979 –is the latest in a series of high-profile moves by the Trump administration to bring the US closer to Taiwan.

ALEX AZAR

CHINA REACTED SHARPLY AFTER AZAR’S VISIT

MASSIVE U.S TAIWAN DEFENCE DEAL

• On 15thaugust 2020 Taiwan formally signed an agreement to buy 66 of thelatest model F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp., a move likely to further inflame tensions between the US and China.

MAGNITUDE

• Taiwan’s purchase of the F-16s marks the first sale of advanced fighter jets to the island since President George HW Bush announced approval for 150 F-16s in 1992.

A BRIEF COMPARISON

• Pakistan Air Force has a total of 76F-16s
• Taiwan already had 115 F-16sand now they will get 66 more

CHINA’S THREAT

• China’s Foreign Ministry told reporters that “U.S. arms sales to Taiwan severely violate the one-China principle.”
• The spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said at the time that her government was urging the U.S. to “refrain” from selling the “fighter jets to Taiwan and stop arms sales to, and military contact with, Taiwan. Otherwise, the Chinese side will surely make strong reactions, and the U.S. will have to bear all the consequences.”

POINT TO NOTE

• China has sold a lot of military equipment to Venezuela in the last few years
• For example -JY-14 Radar
• A medium to long range air defence radar produced and used by the People’s Republic of China.

JY-14 RADAR

RECENTLY INDIA UPGRADED FOREIGN MISSION TO TAIWAN AS WELL

DETAILS

• India’s representation in Taipei is officially known as the India-Taipei Association.
• India’s new envoy to Taipei, Joint Secretary Gourangalal Das, headed the US division in India’s Ministry of External Affairs and succeeds Sridharan Madhusudhanan, who is also a senior career diplomat

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