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U.S. agrees to modernize F-16 aircraft Taiwny not sell now. Washington, Sep 21 () .- The U.S. government reached a deal valued at 5,800 million dollars to upgrade the F-16 Force Taiwn Area, which now includes sale of aircraft, such as the pas peda, said the Pentgono.
The Decision, Wednesdays notified the U.S. Congress, means that instead of accessing to sell 66 F-16 aircraft Taiwn requested by the Government of Barack Obama offers resources to rehabilitate its aging fleet area .
The agreement "is cautious and careful, and we will continue in this line," he told reporters in New York the head of U.S. diplomacy East Asia, Kurt Campbell, the hassle of China hallucinations about it.
Campbell said the Taiwn peticin of purchasing 66 new F-16 est todava "under study".
Members of Congress have criticized in the last days the government of Obama because they see who is giving in to pressures This decision by China, which has expressed strong oposicina that the United States arms sales to Taiwn .
Taiwny China broke away in 1949, that despus Kuomintang nationalists fled to the island after losing the civil war against Mao Zedong's Communists.
Although the United States recognized the Chinese Regime in 1979, has an agreement with the island on dnse in case of sta is attacked.
The purpose of the purchase of F-16 from the island is, according Taiwn, fend off a potential agresin the Chinese Regime, pointing to its neighbor with an arsenal of ms 1500 missiles with which to attack if Taipei formally proclaimed its independence, something that has not done in more than six DCAD.