[QUOTE=justinstrife;2891128]
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Originally Posted by Nosauz
Do you think Taiwan can just go and spend 11 billion in military supplies from the United States in one go? Their economy is nowhere near as big as many of the countries around the world. They can't spend hundreds of billions a year on a military like say America, China, or Russia.
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GDP (Nominal) (2007) $383.3 billion (ranked 24th)
GDP (PPP) (2007) $695.4 billion (ranked 19th)
Taken from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Taiwan
Based on that level of gdp, any loan would have been able to approved and considering they have the 19th highest 11billion isn't as much as you make it seem to be. So if this was strictly a purchase I don't see any issue other than straight payment.
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The sale satisfies parts of an $11 billion arms package
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Does not state whether this is strictly arms purchases, what are people supposed to think. Arm package.. not arms sale, deal or any other word that infers money exchanged for goods.