{"id":3129,"date":"2019-07-13T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/china-taiwan-sanctions-us-firms-military-sales"},"modified":"2019-07-13T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:42:04","slug":"china-vows-to-impose-sanctions-on-us-firms-supplying-taiwan-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"China vows to impose sanctions on US firms supplying Taiwan military"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>US approved sale of tanks and missiles to Taiwan this week<\/li>\n<li>Beijing calls sales \u2018a serious violation of international law\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has said it will impose sanctions on US firms involved in a deal to sell $2.2bn worth of tanks, missiles and related equipment to Taiwan, saying it harmed China\u2019s sovereignty and national security.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said on Monday the US state department had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/09\/us-approves-potential-sale-of-22bn-in-arms-to-taiwan-stoking-chinas-anger\">approved the sale of the weapons requested by Taiwan<\/a>, including 108 General Dynamics Corp M1A2T Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger missiles, which are manufactured by Raytheon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/china-taiwan-sanctions-us-firms-military-sales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US approved sale of tanks and missiles to Taiwan this weekBeijing calls sales \u2018a serious violation of international law\u2019China has said it will impose sanctions on US firms involved in a deal to sell $2.2bn worth of tanks, missiles and related equipment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}