My guess is that after India shot down the purchase of Boeing F-16s or F-18s in their recent fighter competition, Taiwan has a much better shot at getting their F-16 purchase request approved soon in Washington.
We do have an election coming up, and factory jobs for Boeing might be a nice thing for the president to have in hand before fall 2012.
UPDATE: Oh, I meant to mention that the 1992 sale of F-16s to Taiwan had just a hint of re-election politics in it.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
