China denounces the sale of weapons in Taiwan proposed by the United States

China denounced Saturday the decision of the American government to sell some weapons in Taiwan for an amount of 6.5 billions of dollars.

Liu Jianchao, spokesman of the Chinese foreign ministry of the Business, declared that the government and the Chinese people opposed this action that compromised the Chinese interests and the Sino American relations seriously firmly.

The American government, in spite of repeated solenelles the steps of China, informed the Convention of its plan to sell some weapons in Taiwan, among which the Patriot III anti-missile system, the Apache helicopter, and of other facilities.

The Chinese vice-foreign minister of the Business Hey Yafei called the loaded business of the embassy of the United States in China in order to express its discontent against the action of the United States, according to the spokesman.

China opposes the sales of weapons firmly in Taiwan by the United States, and it was always the clear and consistent position of China, he has added.

The agreement of the American government on the sale of weapons in Taiwan rapes the principles established in the three conjoined communicated between China and the United States, particularly the release concerning the sales of weapons in Taiwan by the United States, signed August 17, 1982 interfere in state affairs of China, compromised the national security complicates, and disrupt the pacific development of the relations between the two strands of the strait of Taiwan, underlined Mr. Liu.

"He is natural that this action provokes the indignation of the government and the Chinese people", it has made to notice.

"We warn the United States that only one China exists in the world severely, and that Taiwan is part of China", according to the same source.

He added that no one could shake the firm will of the government and the Chinese people to protect the national sovereignty and the territorial integrity and to oppose all outside interference, and that no one could stop the efforts to develop the exchanges between the two strands of the strait of Taiwan and to open a new chapter of peace in the relations between the two parts.

China called the United States to recognize that this action had compromised the interests and the Chinese Sino American relations seriously, it has said, adding: "The United States must hold their commitment towards the politics of only one China, to respect the three conjoined releases between China and the United States, and must oppose the supposed ‘independence of Taiwan. "

The Chinese ministry of the National Defense published Saturday otherwise provided, condemning the action of the United States.

The spokesman of the ministry Hu Changming declared that the decision of the United States had ruined the good atmosphere of cooperation that existed between the two armed services these last years.

The release also indicates that China reserves the right to take other measures.


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