December 3, 2015

"The US government may notify Congress later this month of its plan to sell $1 billion worth of military equipment to Taiwan. Reports related to this have been constantly emerging in the US media lately, which might be a hint dropped by the US government that the country's arms sales to Taiwan are like an arrow on a bowstring.

The US selling weapons to Taiwan is a repetition of the same old problem in the Sino-US relationship, which flares up every once in a while. The Taiwan question involves China's core interests, and China has always resolutely opposed Washington's arms sales to Taiwan. Over the years, arms sales to Taiwan have been the strongest destructive power in Sino-US ties, and have severely poisoned the military exchanges between the two sides."

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