Taiwan to Team Up With US to Build Fighter Jet Centre, Sending Another Defiant Message to Beijing

South China Morning Post

17 December 2019

Taiwan has further bolstered its defence links with the United States with plans to build an F-16 fighter jet maintenance centre, as the Taipei government continues to resist Beijing’s objective of unification. Collin Koh, a research fellow at RSIS, said the planned maintenance centre underlined how Taiwan-US military ties had become stronger under the more enthusiastic US administration of Trump and the Taiwanese presidency of Tsai Ing-wen.

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