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Monday, August 15, 2011

US rejects Taiwan bid for F-16s

F-16 Fighting FalconThe United States has told Taiwan it will not sell the island 66 long-sought F-16 fighter jets, a report said, but both US and Taiwanese officials are insisting no decision had been made yet.

Taiwan applied to the United States in 2007 to buy the F-16C/Ds, improved versions of the F-16A/Bs that the island's air force now uses, claiming that the new jets are needed to counter a rising China.

But a US Department of Defense delegation flew to Taipei last week to tell the local authorities that Washington will reject the bid, US magazine Defense News said in a Taipei-datelined article released Sunday.

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