China to Use Cheney Visit to Attempt to Block Arms Sales to Taiwan

China plans to use next week’s visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to call on the Washington to stop selling missile defense systems and other advanced weapons technology to Taiwan, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said today (see GSN, April 1).

Cheney will visit China April 13-15, according to Associated Press. 

 “We are firmly opposed to the export of advanced weapons to Taiwan, which violates its (Washington’s) own repeated commitments and also destroys stability across the straits,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said (Joe McDonald, Associated Press, April 6).

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