research fellow: Trump administration officials have given tacit approval to Taipei's request to buy more than 60 Lockheed Martin Corp, according to The Japan Times. F-16s, according to people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for the first such deal since 1992. Their arrival would deal more of a political shock than a military blow to Beijing. While a few dozen fighter jets would hardly tip the military balance against the increasing powerful Chinese military, it would signal a new American willingness to back the democratically run island. ; For Beijing, it would be a huge shock, said Wu Shang-su, a research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. It would be, Oh, the U.S. doesn't care how we feel.' It would be more of a symbolic or emotional issue. But it would be more of a political shock than a military shock.
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