Beijing, Jan. 31 - In an unprecedented move, China bitterly denounced to impose Sanctions on US arm firms and break all cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6.4 billion arm sales to Taiwan. It was reported earlier that Obama administration announced earlier to supply a hefty package of arms to self ruled island that always views as a thorn in the eyes of Beijing.
Taiwan, an illegitimate breakaway province is a biggest rival of China and the trade proximity to US deepens the shade between Washington and Beijing. There are already other problems persist like complicacy around trading of goods, Tibet and recently Internet hacking case.
Beijing in a categorical statement said that it would impose punitive measures against US arm companies, which sold arms to Taiwan. China’s commercial reprisals have in the past been informal.
“The US will shoulder responsibility for the serious repercussions if it does not immediately reverse the mistaken decision to sell weapons to Taiwan,” Chinese vice-foreign minister He Yafei told US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman in comments reported on the foreign ministry’s website (http://www.mfa.gov.cn/).
The rift could damage the healthy diplomacy between the two permanent members of the UN Security Council. China in a recent days, play a pivotal role to pressurizing Iran and North Korea and in fighting climate change.
“It will be unavoidable that cooperation between China and the US over important international and regional issues will also be affected,” the Chinese foreign ministry said, without specifying those issues.
The proposed sale of arms to Taiwan includes Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot “Advanced Capability-3” anti-missile missiles and two refurbished Osprey-class mine-hunting ships. The Black Hawk is manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp. The Patriot missile is built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
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