The U.S. has approved the sales of $2.2 billion worth of M1A2T Abrams Tanks and Stinger man-portable air defense systems to Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory.
." In an editorial, the organization argued that such a move"harms China's sovereignty and security interests, poisons the development of military relations between China and the U.S., and gravely undermines the cross-strait relations and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait."
Under President Donald Trump, however, the U.S. has expanded contacts with Taiwan, whose leader arrived Thursday in New York as part of a four-day visit that has infuriated China. Geng said Friday that the U.S. must"not allow Tsai Ing-wen's transit and stop the official exchange with Taiwan." Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen speaks with the press before they attend a Taiwan-U.S. business summit organized by USTBC and Taiwan's trade organization TAITRA in midtown New York, July 12. The visit sparked fury from China, which has called on the U.S. to respect its decades-old pledge to boycott political ties to Taiwan.The U.S. has also targeted China's defense industry with sanctions in the past.
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