# Posted 11:23 AM by Patrick Belton
TODAY'S NEWS ROUNDUP: The Pentagon has announced plans to sell Taiwan early-warning
radar systems worth $1.8 billion to bolster its defenses in light of a Chinese missile buildup; in return, China
has scolded the U.S. for sending "the wrong message" to Taipei. Egyptian President Mubarak has abandoned his attempt to
salvage the Arab League summit and host it in Cairo. The
Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station closed its doors yesterday after 60 years in Puerto Rico. And Secretary Powell, unusually for a U.S. official, said yesterday that the U.S. and Europe had been pursuing
different world visions for the past two years, and said it was time for the two sides' paths to converge.
In other news,
UAVs are in in the new defense budget, while Comanches are out. They're, like, so Cold War.
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