{"id":627994,"date":"2019-08-20T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=627994"},"modified":"2019-08-20T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:24:33","slug":"us-state-dept-approves-sale-of-66-f-16-fighters-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=627994","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept approves sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"115\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/f-16-fighting-falcon-jet-syria-turkey-war-190x115.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>Washington: The US State Department on Tuesday 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 deal, The State Department said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a [\u2026]&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/us-state-dept-approves-sale-of-66-f-16-fighters-to-taiwan-72482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">US State Dept approves sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The US State Department on Tuesday approved the sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan, in a move expected to anger Beijing. Taiwan will get the latest version of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627995,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}