China News Service, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Huang Yuqin) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on the 6th.
A reporter asked: The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) recently released news that the US State Department has approved the sale of military technology and related equipment to the Taipei Office of Justice in the US, mainly including the planning, deployment, operation and maintenance of the Patriot missile defense system. Technology, related training and equipment, etc., with a total value of about 95 million US dollars.
what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?
Zhao Lijian: The US arms sales to China's Taiwan region seriously violate the one-China principle and the three Sino-US joint communiqués, especially the "August 17" communiqué, which seriously damages China's sovereignty and security development interests, and seriously damages China-US relations and peace across the Taiwan Strait. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this.
The U.S. side should abide by the one-China principle and the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, cancel the above-mentioned arms sales plan to Taiwan, stop arms sales to Taiwan and military ties between the U.S. and Taiwan, and China will take resolute and forceful measures to resolutely defend its own sovereignty and security interests.
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