Sanlitun District in downtown Beijing. File photoBEJING, Feb. 9 The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will take all necessary measures to protect sovereignty and curb any outside interference, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said Wednesday, commenting on the US-approved deal with Taiwan on arms. The US administration previously approved a $100 million deal with Taiwan to maintain Patriot air defense systems.China condemns the sale of American weapons to Taiwan «The People's Liberation Army of China will take all necessary measures to resolutely protect state sovereignty and territorial integrity and unwaveringly suppress any outside interference,» said Wu Qian, quoted in a statement on the agency's website. The spokesman The Chinese Defense Ministry stressed that the Chinese army also intends to stop any separatist plots aimed at achieving Taiwan independence, and will continue to advance the process of «homeland reunification.» «Taiwan's future lies in national reunification, and the island's security depends on the joint efforts of compatriots on both sides of Taiwan of the Strait in accordance with the principle of «one China», and not from the sale of weapons by the United States to Taiwan,» he said. Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. China urges US to cancel arms deal with Taiwan
