forestkung wrote:
Some Taiwanese may have dreamed so dearly about weapons that American would never sell to them. Taiwan is a spendable asset in the eyes of the American government. The weapons the U.S would sell are only proportionate (both in quantity and quality) to her needs in Geopolitics. In addition, Taiwan's military personnel seem not realiable and trustworthy since many of them still lean toward the other side of the strait at the bottom of their heart. Better not to risk leaking the secret of her best war machines and that's why f-18 or f-35 will not come to Taiwan any time soon. Besides, Taiwan is not her ally formly, which certainly deserves inferior treatment diplomatically and militarily. Hence, The U.S will keep protecting the island until it is no longer essential to her core interests. She would do no more and no less--- f-16v is exactly the ONLY option Taiwan could get in the forseeable future.
