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The Diplomat, September 9, 2011By Jason Miks
http://the-diplomat.com/china-power/2011/09/09/china-us-playing-with-fire/
China's top official paper warns the US against selling advanced arms to Taiwan or else risk being 'punished.'
China ramped up the pressure on the United States not to sell advanced arms to Taiwan, with the Communist Party’s official newspaper warning that US congressmen are ‘playing with fire’ over the issue.
The Obama administration is set to decide by the end of this month whether to agree to Taiwanese requests for upgraded versions of the F-16 fighter, which the island sees as essential for countering China’s military build-up across the Taiwan Strait. But China has objected strongly to previous sales, including one worth $6.4 billion in January last year that prompted Beijing to break off high-level military ties with Washington.
In a commentary written under the pen name Zhong Sheng, The People’s Daily warned that, ‘At present, some madmen on Capitol Hill are making an uproar about consolidating and expanding this cancer,’ Reuters notes. ‘If these crazy ideas come to fruition, what kind of predicament will Sino-U.S. relations find themselves in?’
An opinion piece in the English edition of the paper, appearing under the name Ding Gang, called for China to ‘punish’ the United States.
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