US violates pledge

The US government has eaten its words again. By going back on its own promises, it is endangering China's national security and even affecting the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations, which have seen improvements over the past few months.

It will also exert adverse effect upon the Sino-US relations.

On Friday, the Bush administration notified the Congress that it plans to sell weapons worth $6.4 billion to Taiwan. In the catalogue is Patriot III anti-missile system, E-2T airborne early warning aircraft upgrade system, Apache helicopters and other equipment.