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The US State Department has forwarded the deal to Congress for approval. The proposed $ 600 million deal is just the latest in President Donald Trump’s administration’s multibillion-dollar arms deal to Taipei. (Read: US Presidential Electoral Votes Results: Biden 264, Trump 214)
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Wednesday that Beijing vowed to make the appropriate and necessary response if Washington finalized a new arms sales deal to Taiwan.
“It brutally interferes in China’s internal affairs and seriously undermines China’s sovereignty and security interests,” Wang said, referring to the $ 600 million arms sales deal between the US and Taiwan.
“China’s response will come according to the development of the situation,” he said, as quoted from AP, Thursday (5/11/2020). (Also read: The Chinese media have tilted Indonesia for opposing China’s claims in the South China Sea)
On Tuesday, marking US Presidential Election Day, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the Pentagon arm for handling the Foreign Military Sales program, announced that the State Department had approved a $ 600 million arms sale to Taiwan.
According to the DSCA, the deal includes four armed Reaper drones and four ground control stations for operations drone those — two mobile, two fixed—As well as many related spare parts and other equipment.
The expensive arms deal will not be finalized until it is approved by the US Congress and Taipei lawmakers.
Taiwan considers itself an independent country, but Beijing considers it Chinese territory. Currently, only 14 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have Taiwan as a country.
Beijing has repeatedly warned Washington against selling arms to the island. In late October, President Xi Jinping’s government pledged to impose Chinese sanctions on US defense contractors including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing in response to several arms deals.
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