Last month's decision by the United States to sell $6.4 billion worth of arms and military supplies to Taiwan "will not affect steadily improving ties between Taipei and Beijing," according to Chiang Pin-kung, Taiwan's top China negotiator. China's reaction, however, was much less sanguine. Beijing immediately suspended military exchanges with Washington and threatened sanctions against the military contractors supplying the war material to Taiwan. And on Monday a group of Chinese military officers, in state-controlled media interviews, urged China to increase its defense spending and deploy additional troops to offset the new agreement between the United States and Taiwan.
Bob Adelmann cites positions of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, They both objected to Foreign entanglements." (Source: Bob Adelmann, New American, Feb 10, 2010).