“Recent events in the Taiwan Strait have shown the US readiness to go for open provocations against China, to actively use the Taiwan factor in its policy of comprehensive containment of Beijing,” Zinoviev said.
According to him, the result of such a policy of Washington was the growth of tension and the "erosion of security" in the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole.
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.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that China has the right to take measures to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the situation around Taiwan.