U.S. arms sales to Taiwan China choked sanctions Ge Laiyi bluntly said, “There would have been no business dealings.”

China has reacted sharply to the U.S. announcement of arms sales to Taiwan, saying it would impose sanctions on Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Raytheon and other companies linked to the arms sale. In response, Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, said that these companies have little to do with China.

Glaser said that as China’s threat has increased, there is huge bipartisan support in Congress for arms sales to Taiwan, and China knows that the U.S. will continue to sell arms to Taiwan, and this is the third or fourth time it has threatened to impose sanctions on U.S. companies, according to the BBC Chinese website. In addition, China seems to be more concerned with its own interests, as in the case of the threat to sanction Boeing’s defense division rather than its commercial division.

In terms of the content of the arms sale, Gorey believes that it is different this time, because the U.S. side sold some offensive weapons, which give Taiwan the ability to respond to missiles, as well as to attack Chinese coastal ports or airfields, reducing the PLA’s ability to act against Taiwan, but these can only be used as countermeasures to slow down the attack.