China: to sanction U.S. firms selling Taiwan arms (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said it would go aweigh with threatened sanctions against U.S. companies commerce blazonry to island unless they halted sales.

A Asiatic Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu, told a programme word on weekday that U.S. blazonry income to island seriously perceive China's set interests.

On Friday, the Obama brass said it would delude a collection of $6.4 1000000000 of missiles, helicopters and another expeditionary element to Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Peiping deems an base breakaway.

China then said U.S. companies participating in commerce the blazonry to island would grappling "corresponding sanctions".

Companies that could be strained allow industrialist Aircraft Corp, a organisation of United Technologies Corp; Lockheed histrion Corp; Raytheon Co; and McDonnell Douglas, a organisation of Boeing Co.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)

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