Arms sale will cause damage to US interests

The Barack Obama administration has just authorized another round of arms sales to Taiwan worth $1.8 billion, which Beijing has strongly opposed because it undermines the country's sovereignty and national integrity.

China has maintained this position since Beijing and Washington normalized their diplomatic relationship, and demanded that the US immediately stop selling arms to the island.

In fact, the US had promised to reduce the quantity and quality of arms sales to the island once the tensions across the Taiwan Straits eased, and eventually stop them. But 33 years after the US made the promise, in the form of the third China-US Communiqu�� in 1982, Washington has been continuing to sell weapons sales to Taiwan. It has been violating its promise despite the easing of tensions across the Straits, and the peaceful and massive two-way flow of people and goods.