Old U.S. jets going to Taiwan
NZPA-Reuter Washington The United States had been shipping Lockheed FlO4 Starfighter aircraft to Taiwan for several months as part of a programme to replace ageing jets in the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, the State Department said yesterday. President Ronald Reagan.
in a joint United States Chinese communique in August, pledged to reduce arms sales to the Nationalists and not to provide better weapons than those supplied in recent years. A State Department official, commenting on a C.B.S. television report that the Administration had been “quietly shipping" the jets to
Taiwan, said that the shipments of Starfighters were consistent with the joint communique and “part of an ongoing programme under way for several months.” The Reagan Administration had indicated publicly that it would replace Taiwan’s ageing aircraft with comparable aircraft,
- the official said. > Development of the Start fighter began in 1951 and it i has been flown by many Air • Forces. 1 China's dispute with the United States over the sale - of arms to Taiwan was one i of the subjects discussed by > the Secretary of State. Mr t George Shultz, and Chinese , officials in Peking last week.
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