Since the PRC has thrown that out the window, the arms sales go back up "This issue" was the peaceful reunification of China. What does talk about selling arms is the Third Communique. statement says nothing about about selling arms. In fact, Deng Xiaoping could have called off normalizaiton over it if he wanted to. Since the PRC has thrown that out the window, the arms sales go back up.Īlso in the Taiwan Relations Act three years earlier, the US government made clear it was going to keep selling arms and was committed to Taiwan's defense. In order to bring about, over a period of time, a final settlement of the question of United States arms sales to Taiwan, which is an issue rooted in history, the two governments will make every effort to adopt measures and create conditions conducive to the thorough settlement of this issue. That statement says nothing about about selling arms. In a 1972 joint communiqué with the PRC, the United States "acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China" and "does not challenge that position." The US continues to renege on its One China agreement by selling arms to Taiwan.
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