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China blasts Pentagon official's Taiwan visit, military ties | 2023-02-22 16:27:09
China has sharply criticized a visit to Taiwan by a senior Pentagon official and reaffirmed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying military equipment to the self-governing island
The Chinese government criticized the Pentagon and reaffirmed its sanction of US companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon amid rising tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
A Chinese mainland spokeswoman on Wednesday slammed some politicians from the United States who called for more US military funding for Taiwan and suggested the use of self-detonating drones in possible conflicts with China, saying that they were only using the Taiwan question to contain the country.