{"id":136125,"date":"2025-09-09T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136125"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:51:39","slug":"philippines-pauses-purchase-plans-for-f-16s-from-us-due-to-funding-chokepointunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136125","title":{"rendered":"Philippines pauses purchase plans for F-16s from US due to funding \u2018chokepoint\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Philippines\u2019 potential purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States has been put on hold due to budget constraints, Manila\u2019s ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe US State Department approved the potential sale, valued at an estimated US$5.6 billion, earlier this year in what was seen as a significant capability boost for the Philippine Air Force amid rising regional tensions.<br \/>\n\u201cRight now, I think it\u2019s on hold, mainly because \u2026 the funding is the key element of this whole&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3324874\/philippines-pauses-purchase-plans-f-16s-us-due-funding-chokepoint?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Philippines\u2019 potential purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States has been put on hold due to budget constraints,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}