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Beijing calls off US military contact
China has abruptly cancelled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multi-billion dollar US arms sale to Taiwan, American officials said.
- AP
- Published: 23:26 October 7, 2008
Washington: China has abruptly cancelled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multi-billion dollar US arms sale to Taiwan, American officials said.
Beijing has notified the US that it will not go forward with several senior level visits and other cooperative military-to-military plans, said Marine Major Stewart Upton, a Defence Department spokesman.
"In response to...Taiwan arms sales, ... China cancelled or postponed several military-to-military exchanges," he said.
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