Posted on 01/30/2010 10:23:48 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
China threatened to impose sanctions on U.S. arms firms and cut cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, in an unprecedented move signalling Beijing's growing global power.
China on Saturday bitterly denounced the Obama administration's announcement a day earlier that it planned to sell the package of weapons to Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing views as an illegitimate breakaway province.
The dispute deepens the rifts between Beijing and Washington, also at odds over trade, currency, Tibet and the Internet.
Beijing said it would sanction U.S. companies that sold arms to Taiwan, a break with past practice. China's commercial reprisals have in the past been informal.
"The United States will shoulder responsibility for the serious repercussions if it does not immediately reverse the mistaken decision to sell weapons to Taiwan," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman in comments reported on the Foreign Ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn).
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Taiwan is now utterly alone.
China has more to lose in this contest than the US does.
The Chinese Premier thinks that Obama is a complete idiot, and OPENLY Dissed him in Copenhagen.
They do not fear this incompetent clown...
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“China has more to lose in this contest than the US does.”
Agreed. If ObaMao tells China to pound sand it will be about the only thing he’s ever done with which I agree.
Congrats to every US president since Nixon, as well as the US business community, for insisting on treating China like a great power with a legitimate government, giving them a seat on the UN Security Council, granting them permanent Most Favored Nation trading status, admitting them to powerful international trade bodies, supplying them with American technology transfers - in short, for helping to put this gaggle of Communist tyrants in a position where we need to give a crap about their sanctions.
I dare China to stop buying our debt.
According to Larry Sinclair, Barry blinks a lot when he's yelping.
Obambi, with a deer-in-the-headlights look, will not only blink, but probably chastise Taiwan for threatening the Chicoms. Then look for the Chicoms to give Obambi another lecture, just as they have instructed him on economics a few months ago.
Exactly, how does 10 cents on the dollar for all those bonds sound?
Oh but wait this is a democrat administration sorry taiwan it was nice knowing you. You will go the way South vietnam. Hey while we're at it why don't we just pull our troops out of Korea to show North Korea we mean them no harm.
This is the first time ever that I agreed with a PRC Premiers thinking.
BBTTT.
One would certainly think so unless Chinese sanctions affect US defense firms’ supply chain than their customer base. Just speculating.
Sic that wife of his on them. They would do anything to get rid of her.
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