Chinese government officials and state media were livid about American arms sales to Taiwan this week, vowing retaliation against the United States and punitive sanctions for every American company involved in the sales.
Chinese state television on Monday aired a “confession” from a Taiwanese academic named Cheng Yu-chin who said he engaged in espionage activities against the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Chinese state media was livid on Tuesday after Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) – the more pro-Beijing of the major Taiwanese parties – introduced legislation that would ask for American assistance against Chinese Communist aggression.
China’s Global Times state-run newspaper urged the Chinese Communist Party to “impose military pressure” on Taiwan, a sovereign state that China claims as a rogue province, on Sunday following President Tsai Ing-wen’s reelection on the island this weekend.
American and Taiwanese officials celebrated President Tsai Ing-wen’s reelection on Saturday, in what was seen as a rebuke to China.
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Taiwan is expected to inaugurate Tsai Ing-wen as the first female president Friday, amid bad relations with China and the self-ruled island’s collapsing economy.
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