(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China and the United States were locked yesterday in an escalating row over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, with Washington rebuffing Chinese protests and insisting the deal promotes stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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China’s tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of powerThe Chinese response to the decision of the United States to sell a $6.3bn arms package to Taiwan represents a small but significant raising of the ante. The Chinese have partially halted the military exchange programme between the two [...]
The Chinese government has reacted quickly to an announcement from the Obama administration of a $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan. From the New York Times:
The Chinese government announced late Saturday an unusually broad series of retaliatory measures…
Deal threatens to worsen a relationship already strained by American attacks on Chinese censorship of the internetThe Chinese government has warned that a planned sale of advanced US weaponry to Taiwan threatens to strain a relationship already troubled by disputes about internet censorship.The US military yesterday announced plans for a $6.3bn (£4bn) arms sale [...]
Zheng Lizhong , executive vice president of the Chinese mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits , shakes hands with Kao Kung-lian, vice chairman and secretary general of Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation , during the first …
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Vice Chairman, Kao Koong-lian, said yesterday that it is very hard to say when the next round of talks on a cross-Taiwan Strait trade pact will be held in Taiwan, as both sides still have a great d…
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan held their first talks in Beijing yesterday to pave the way for a long-awaited, free-trade-like deal that is expected to boost cross-Straits economic ties.
Experts from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan held their first talks here Tuesday to pave the way for a long-awaited economic deal that is expected to boost cross-Strait economic ties.
An Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement could significantly change the cross-Strait economic relationship, although Taipei must work to convince a wary public