China To Suspend Some Military Ties With The U.S. Over Taiwan Arms Sale

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (1st R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (1st L) in New York, the United States, Sept. 26, 2011. Yang was in New York to attend the general debate of the 66th session of the General Assembly. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)

China To Suspend Some Military-To-Military Activities With U.S. Over Taiwan Arms Sale -- The Cable/Foreign Policy

The Chinese government has laid out a series of protest measures it will take in response to the Obama administration's decision to sell Taiwan a new $5.8 billion package of upgrades to its aging fleet of fighter jets.

"[Chinese officials] have indicated that they're going to suspend or to cancel or postpone a series of military-to-military engagements," a senior State Department official told reporters in New York following Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Monday meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.

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