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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — China's Defense Ministry on Monday condemned the recently announced US$330 million arms sale to Taiwan, vowing to take all necessary measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In response to media inquiries, Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman Zhang Xiaogang stated that the arms sale seriously violates the one-China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-US joint communiqués, constitutes gross interference in China's internal affairs, harms the country's sovereignty and security interests, and sends a serious, false signal to separatist forces advocating for "Taiwan independence."
“We express our strong dissatisfaction and resolute protest in this regard, and have already made a serious representation to the American side,” the Defense Ministry representative noted.
Zhang Xiaogang emphasized that any attempt to support "Taiwan independence" by military means would only bring disaster to those who undertake them, and that plans to "use Taiwan to contain China" are doomed to failure.
"We call on the American side to immediately cease its malicious actions to arm Taiwan in order to avoid damaging the development of relations between the two countries and their armed forces," he said.
“We also warn the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party administration that wasting the Taiwanese people’s hard-earned money on weapons is a dead end, and that the idea of ‘achieving independence with external support’ and ‘resisting reunification by force’ is doomed to failure,” Zhang Xiaogang added. –0–
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