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“Over the past weeks and months, despite China’s firm opposition and repeated protest, the U.S. has continued to sell arms to Taiwan and done things that severely undermine China’s core interests and the mutual trust between China and the U.S.,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin JianWednesday. “Consequently, the Chinese side has decided to hold off discussion with the US on a new round of consultations on arms control and non-proliferation.
The U.S. regarded the government in Taiwan as the legitimate government of China for decades after World War II. And while the U.S. moved its embassy from Taipei to Beijing as part of a 1979 rapprochement with the communist regime, federal law has required presidents of both parties to maintain friendly unofficial relations with Taiwan and provide its government with weapons to deter or fend off a prospective Chinese invasion.
“There is money that was contained in the recently surpassed supplemental bill that gives us, for, I believe, the first time, the ability to provide Taiwan with drawdown authority and other weapons from U.S. stocks,” Miller told reporters Wednesday. “But that is a new authority. If you look at the support that we provided or the security cooperation that we have provided them over the decades, it has been Taiwan actually purchasing military from the United States.
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