“Relations between the sides of the Taiwan Strait are a purely internal affair of China, which has the right to take measures necessary to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the Taiwan issue,” TASS reports.
Earlier it became known that the US State Department approved a possible deal to sell arms to Taiwan in excess of $1 billion.
Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said that China intends to take "legal and necessary" measures in response to the sale of weapons by the United States to Taiwan.