GOP Lawmakers Call on Pentagon to Resolve Taiwan’s F-16 Shipment Delays

‘The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is mounting an increasingly aggressive pressure campaign against the island that continues to intensify.’

Four upgraded U.S.-made F-16 V fighters during a demonstration at the Chiayi Air Base in southern Taiwan on Nov. 18, 2021. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images

Rep. Robert Wittman (R-Va.) and a group of 23 GOP lawmakers called on the Pentagon to resolve the extended delivery delay of F-16 fighters to Taiwan amid Chinese military aggression toward the island.

In a Nov. 16 letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Mr. Wittman, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and his Republican colleagues raised concerns that the delay of two F-16 fighter jet programs for Taiwan is “high-risk.”