(Ha'aretz)Ze'ev Schiff - Washington is demanding that Israel not send back to China some of the Israeli-made Harpy assault drones sent here for upgrading. The drones are already Chinese property, and the demand may result in a crisis with China as well. The Israelis who heard the demand were astonished, considering there is no American technology in the drones. The crisis arose when the Pentagon's number three, Douglas Feith, learned that Israel had sold the drones to China in the mid-1990s and was upgrading them.
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