China To Halt Military Exchanges, Punish U.S. Companies For Arms Sales To Taiwan

[Purveyor]

BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Saturday that China will postpone bilateral military programs and security talks and punish certain U.S. companies in response to the U.S. government's greenlight on new shipments of advanced weapons to Taiwan.

According to a press release of the Foreign Ministry, China has decided to partially halt the exchange programs between the militaries of the two countries, as well as the vice-ministerial consultation on strategic security, arms control and anti-proliferation, which was originally scheduled to be held soon.

China will also impose sanctions on the U.S. companies involved in the arms sales to Taiwan, the press release says.

Sources from the Foreign Ministry said China-U.S. cooperation on major regional and international issues will also be inevitably affected by the issue.

The Chinese side made such decisions since the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan had "incurred severe damage to China-U.S. relations," the press release says.

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[naaman fletcher]

1. I tend to think this is a good thing..

What have good relations between us and china done except gut the middle class?

[theoldman]

2. The losers will be the US and Taiwan.

The Taiwanese need to spend their money on things other than military weapons. Mainland China is racing ahead while Taiwan is falling behind. The Taiwan government is dysfunctional to say the least.

[Taitertots]

3. Just smacking the bee hive

Severe damage to the US-China relationship could be catastrophic, even WWIII level.

[FreakinDJ]

4. FreeTrade = China dictates U.S. Policy

Gee - Bush sure did have a good idea when he created the Tax Incentives to outsource ALL of America's Industry to China