{"id":41484,"date":"2022-02-08T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/us-approves-100m-deal-for-taiwan-to-upgrade-patriot-missile-system"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:01:44","slug":"us-approves-100m-deal-for-taiwan-to-upgrade-patriot-missile-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41484","title":{"rendered":"US approves $100m deal for Taiwan to upgrade Patriot missile system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence sale will help \u2018maintain political stability, military balance, economic and progress in the region\u2019, says US<\/p>\n<p>The United States has approved a possible $100m sale of equipment and services to Taiwan to \u201csustain, maintain, and improve\u201d the Patriot missile defense system used by the self-ruled island claimed by China, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the US defence security cooperation agency on Monday said it had delivered the required certification notifying Congress after state department approval for the sale, which was requested by Taiwan\u2019s de facto embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/us-approves-100m-deal-for-taiwan-to-upgrade-patriot-missile-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence sale will help \u2018maintain political stability, military balance, economic and progress in the region\u2019, says USThe United States has approved a possible $100m sale of equipment and services to Taiwan to \u201csustain, maintain, and improve\u201d the Patrio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484\/revisions\/41485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}