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Article: Chiang Kai-Shek Is Dead.(military hardware sales to Taiwan)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- April 23, 2001
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President George W. Bush's first major foreign-policy decision will come at the end of April when he will have to decide what kind of military hardware to sell Taiwan. The debate will be somewhat technical, but very important: It involves America's stance toward a region of the world where the fate of democracy is at stake and where a major war could eventually occur. And American liberals, who usually have something to say about almost any foreign-policy issue, from East Timor to Northern Ireland, have been almost entirely absent from this debate.
The Taiwanese want, among other things, Patriot 3 antimissile systems and four Aegis destroyers that could be used to ...