After agreement was reached, we could go ahead with the purchases. Political factors still have the greatest impact on arms purchases. Political concerns in arms-exporting nations as well as pressure exerted by mainland China on arms exporters often affect our military procurement situation. Thus our procedure for buying weapons from the US has not always gone smoothly, and we have needed to do some serious negotiating.
影響軍事採購最大的還是政治的因素，輸出國的政治考量，與中共給予武器輸出國的施壓，往往影響我國的軍購狀況，所以我方對美國的採購過程並不是一直都很順利的，也需要一些談判技巧。