http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-taiwan-arms-sale-20151216-story.html
The move predictably irritated China. Vice Foreign Minister Zheng
Zeguang immediately summoned Kaye Lee, charge d'affaires of the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing, and made “solemn representations,” the state-run New
China News Agency said. Beijing regards Taiwan as a breakaway territory
that must one day be reunited with the mainland.
"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. China strongly opposes the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan," Zheng said.
But
the value of the deal is a third as large as the last such sale in
2011, a $5.8-billion package that upgraded Taiwan’s aging F-16 jet
fleet. That followed a $6.4-billion sale in 2010, which included 114
Patriot missiles, 60 Black Hawk helicopters, Harpoon missiles,
mine-hunting ships, and communications equipment for the F-16s.
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