Posted on 02/05/2010 2:25:07 PM PST by myknowledge
MUNICH (Reuters) - China is indignant about new U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and its opposition to them is "very reasonable," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Friday.
China has said it will impose unspecified sanctions on U.S. firms selling weapons to Taiwan in retaliation for the U.S. announcement that it planned to sell $6.4 billion of arms to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.
"The Chinese government and people feel indignant about this," Yang told a security conference in Germany. "I do hope the U.S. will change its behavior ... and will stop arms sales to Taiwan."
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Yeah, right.
Doesn't this guy get it?
Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the United States is allowed, even obliged to assist the Republic of China in any way, such as arms sales.
Is this Rooters article supposed to say that Barry has some nads and is standing up against China?
NFW.
Indignant? Someone page Jeremiah Wright.
No. He was openly dissed by the Chi-coms at Copenhagen so this was a form of retaliation.
Adding the Google situation, where Google execs were part of his campaign and now part of zerO’s economic advisory team, this is his way of foreign policy-—Chiacago-style.
With the percentage of our debt that China holds as well as the Iran thing, they may have us by the butt on a downhill pull!
China has every justification to be miffed about the arms sales. With Taiwan now fully armed, it could attack beijing at any moment.
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