Firms involved in Taiwan sale face sanctions

Planned deal worth around $2.2 billion seriously violates international law

China said on Friday it will place sanctions on US companies involved in the latest planned military sale to Taiwan, which it said has impaired its sovereignty and national security.

The planned sale worth an estimated $2.2 billion seriously violates international law and basic norms of international relations, as well as the one-China principle and the stipulations of the three China-US joint communiques, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang in a statement.