china has spoken out after the u.s
approved another arms deal between the
us and taiwan
that would be worth over 2 billion
here's the chinese foreign ministry
warning against the deal
china urges the us to abide by the one
china principle and china us-3 joint
communique
stop selling arms to taiwan and having
military contact with them
cancel all relevant arms sales planned
for taiwan to avoid further damaging the
china-u.s
relationship and peace and stability in
the taiwan strait
china will take justified and necessary
measures to firmly safeguard our
national sovereignty and security
interests
well this would be the second arms deal
between the u.s and taiwan in recent
months the first worth 1.8 billion
dollars
was approved earlier this month and
prompted beijing to sanction the u.s
arms manufacturers involved taiwan is
self-governing but
china regards it as a renegade province
u.s
relations with taiwan have grown just as
they have
soured with beijing taiwan says it will
continue to develop its defense capacity
in the face of china's military
expansion
well i'm joined now by bonnie glazer the
director of the china power
project at the center for strategic and
international studies thanks very much
for being with us so what do you think
this move means
well i think that china always objects
to u.s
arms sales to taiwan but under a law
that was
passed in the united states in 1979
called the taiwan relations act
every administration is required to sell
arms to taiwan to defend itself and
frankly
the threat from china is growing and
there is enormous bipartisan support
in congress for selling more arms to
taiwan
so given that um support that will
clearly be seen as a provocation
uh in china what's china's aim here
well china is trying to defend its uh
sovereignty and not appear weak to its
domestic public but frankly the chinese
government knows that the united states
will continue to sell weapons to taiwan
to defend itself
this particular time chinese has
threatened to impose sanctions this is
the third or fourth time that
china has threatened to impose sanctions
on u.s companies
but frankly most of these companies are
not selling of course arms to beijing
and they're not even doing much
commercial
business with china it was quite notable
in fact that china only said that it
would sanction
uh boeing's defense unit and not the
commercial side of the company
so it looks like china is keeping its
own interests at the forefront of its
mind
now that's interesting and i want to get
into the detail of the weapons
themselves
what's going on there well
the united states has actually sold some
offensive
uh capabilities this time around which
is somewhat of a departure from the past
for example standoff land attack
missiles
high mobile artillery rocket systems
these provide tyron with
counter-strike missile force which they
can use to hit ports
airfields on china's coast which would
degrade the pla's ability
to conduct operations against taiwan so
they would only be used
to retaliate to slow down an attack
there's also in this new weapons package
coastal defense cruise missiles which
are a real game changer they can be
mounted on trucks
they can scoot and shoot and they can
try
and hit at uh amphibious landing
vehicles
other transport vehicles that are trying
to move large numbers of troops
to invade taiwan so they're to prevent
the pla from landing on the beach
bonnie thank you so much for talking us
through what's going on there with that
uh
armed deal we really appreciate it
bonnie clayton thank you
now the u.s has also signed a military
agreement with china's regional
rival india india and the us have agreed
to share sensitive
satellite data this is all against a
backdrop of india's military standoff
with china in the himalayan region
of ladakh the announcement came during
high-level talks in delhi between
america and india here's u.s secretary
of state mike pompeo
our leaders and our citizens see with
increasing clarity
that the ccp is no friend to democracy
the rule of law
transparency nor to freedom of
navigation the foundation of a free and
open
and prosperous indo-pacific i'm glad to
say that the united states and india are
taking
steps to strengthen our cooperation
against all manner of threats
and not just those posed by the chinese
communist party
regina vaidyanathan is in delhi well the
deal that was done today between india
and the us the basic exchange
cooperation agreement
is certainly seen as something that will
strengthen ties between
india and the us because it allows them
to share information when it comes to
maps and geospatial data
when it comes to military operations so
that's seen as a huge
boost but the wider context of this
visit where you have
two leading u.s cabinet ministers
is all about countering china's growing
influence
in the region i mean just think about it
you've got the u.s secretary of state
uh mike pompeo you've got the u.s
secretary of defense mike esper
who are flying halfway across the world
during a pandemic
a week before a presidential election
for
these talks and that just shows you how
important this is to
the administration now having left india
they're now
in sri lanka they will then go on to the
maldives
and then indonesia and those last three
countries that i mentioned
all have very good relationships and
strong ties with beijing so this is all
about trying
to contain and counter china's growing
influence
in this region and it's worth also
mentioning that only a few weeks ago
mike pompeo's deputy stephen began the
deputy
secretary of state made a visit to
bangladesh bangladesh another country
that has close
ties with beijing it was the first time
that a senior u.s official has visited
dhaka for close to a decade