{"id":315123,"date":"2017-06-30T00:51:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-approves-weapons-sales-to-taiwan-worth-of-1-4-billion\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:51:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:51:44","slug":"us-approves-weapons-sales-to-taiwan-worth-of-1-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-approves-weapons-sales-to-taiwan-worth-of-1-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves weapons sales to Taiwan worth of $1.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US State Department has approved weapons sales to Taiwan worth a total of $1.4 billion, a move which is certainly going to anger China which considers the self-governing island\u00a0part of mainland China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a State Department official, the arms sales to Taiwan contains seven items, including Early Warning Radar Surveillance systems, the Joint Stand-off Weapon, anti-radiation missiles, torpedoes and components for SM-2 missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sales primarily represent upgrades to existing defense capabilities aimed at converting current legacy systems from analog to digital,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday the Trump administration had notified Congress of its plan to approve the seven sales to China.<\/p>\n<p>Nauert claimed the sales did not violate the Taiwan Relations Act that defines American contacts with the island country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows, we believe, our support for Taiwan&#8217;s ability to maintain a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/29\/526937\/US-approves-weapons-sales-to-Taiwan-worth-of-14-billion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has approved weapons sales to Taiwan worth a total of $1.4 billion, a move which is certainly going to anger China which considers the self-governing island\u00a0part of mainland China. According to a State Department official, the arms sales to Taiwan contains seven items, including Early Warning Radar Surveillance systems, the Joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}