arms sale

The last major arms sale to Taiwan was in 1992, just as the current President Bush's father was leaving office.

Two years earlier, Beijing also cut off military ties for five months in response to another arms sale by the Bush administration.

China cut off most links between the two militaries in January after the U. S. announced an arms sale package to Taiwan.

Formal notification of a proposed arms sale usually follows informal consultations with Congress.

Thanks to a shaky system of international arms-sale monitoring, its hard to say.

Our position of firmly opposing US arms sale to Taiwan has always been consistent and clear.

U. S. Embassy officials confirmed that senior Chinese Foreign Ministry officials called in Ambassador Gary Locke over the arms sale.

Mr. Ma spoke to the conference later and didn't touch on the U. S-Taiwan arms-sale dispute in his speech.

Beijing and Moscow signed two arms-sale contracts in which China will buy Russian fighter jets and submarines, media reports said.

We urge the US side to be fully aware of the danger and stop the wrong practice of arms sale to Taiwan.

Some analysts saw the Chinese response to the Taiwan arms sale as predictable, and expected the strain on relations to be short-lived.

China has stepped up its criticism of the latest U. S. arms sale to Taiwan.

The Chinese have ranted in response, as they do over every American arms sale to Taiwan.

Counter arms sale with tough action: Experts.

China severed U. S. military contacts after Washington announced a $6. 5 million arms sale to Taiwan in October.

Contacts were frozen in 2010 by Beijing in protest at a US arms sale to Taiwan.

I think the senator will packwood on the arms sale.

U. S. -China military relations hit a low last year after Washington approved a $6 billion arms-sale package for Taiwan.