{"id":367024,"date":"2010-02-26T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/1992-cia-document-shows-possible-scenarios-china-would-take-over-f-16-sales-to-taiwan-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:08:00","slug":"cia-document-reveals-what-the-agency-thinks-beijing-would-do-in-response-to-an-arms-sale-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367024","title":{"rendered":"CIA Document Reveals What The Agency Thinks Beijing Would Do In Response To An Arms Sale To Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately the subject of US arm sales to Taiwan has re-emerged, only to Anger leaders in Beijing. This is an old story that keeps brewing up from time to time &#8212; so old in fact that in 1992 the CIA drew up a document on this very subject.<\/p>\n<p>Via our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/intelfin.blogspot.com\/\">TheBack9<\/a> we see the CIA&#8217;s &#8220;The Impact on Beijing of US Reconsideration of F-16 Sales to Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document details a scenario of selling multiple F-16 jet fighters to Taiwan despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china\">Chinese resistance<\/a>. The good stuff comes on Page 4 of the document, in which we find out how China might retaliate from an arms sale.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you don&#8217;t see mentioned: Any kind of massive treasury dumping. Of course, this was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8818c47f8b9a71123c0600\/1992-cia-document-page-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1992 CIA document Page 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entire document is embedded below for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object id=\"_ds_26720667\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" name=\"_ds_26720667\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=26720667&amp;mem_id=1825584&amp;doc_type=pdf&amp;fullscreen=0&amp;allowdownload=1&amp;showrelated=0&amp;showotherdocs=0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/26720667\/CHINA-TAIWAN-1992-CIA-DOC\">CHINA TAIWAN 1992 CIA DOC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/1992-cia-document-shows-possible-scenarios-china-would-take-over-f-16-sales-to-taiwan-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/world-turns-against-china-as-europe-sells-helicopters-to-taiwan-2010-2\">The West Turns Against China, As Europe Sells Helicopters To Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-threatens-unprecedented-sanctions-against-boeing-2010-2\">China Threatens &#8216;Unprecedented Sanctions&#8217; Against Boeing After US Arms Sales To Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/5GJO-FT_4_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately the subject of US arm sales to Taiwan has re-emerged, only to Anger leaders in Beijing. This is an old story that keeps brewing up from time to time &#8212; so old in fact that in 1992 the CIA drew up a document on this very subject. Via our friends at TheBack9 we see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}