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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — Military aid or arms sales to China’s Taiwan region is a malicious attempt by the United States to drag Taiwan into the flames of war, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said Thursday.
“We firmly oppose any form of military collusion between the United States and the Chinese region of Taiwan,” Zhang Xiaogang said at a press conference.
He made these statements while commenting, at the request of a journalist, on the adoption by the US House Appropriations Committee of the defense appropriations bill, which provides for the allocation of US$500 million in military aid to Taiwan.
Zhang Xiaogang demanded that the US side abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques, and stop sending wrong signals to separatist forces advocating “Taiwan independence.”
He also responded to a question about Taiwan’s Prime Minister Lai Qingde’s desire to establish Taiwan-US security cooperation, which he said should move from military procurement to joint production, research and development.
“Lai Qingde and his ilk are constantly inventing new ways to pay ‘protection money’ to their American ‘masters’, recklessly squandering money earned by the Taiwanese people through blood and sweat,” he stressed. -0-
Any attempt to achieve “independence” with the help of the United States, or to prevent national reunification with military force, is doomed to failure, he warned. -0-