Playing Taiwan card will sour Sino-US ties

Editor's note: A "US-Taiwan defense sector forum" was held in Kaohsiung on Thursday amid the US Congress' review of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which aims to "strengthen US-Taiwan military exchanges". Three experts share their views with China Daily's Yao Yuxin on how such "exchanges" undermine the Three Joint Communiqu��s and will sour Sino-US ties. Excerpts follow:

Blatant interference in China's internal affairs

It is the quality, not the quantity, of the weapons and arms technology that Washington sells to Taiwan that is especially worrying.