Oh dont you love the way they word this crap. China on Friday condemned the sale, and Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said it should be abandoned. China has repeatedly registered strong protests over American military transfers to Taiwan. Washington recognizes Beijing as the only legitimate government of China, but has continued to sell defensive military hardware to Taiwan, which is considered to be a maverick province by the communist mainland. We give Taiwan weapons that give them the ability to defend themselves which makes the Chinese eager to die now instead of later and they attack therefore by supplying Taiwan the weapons we started the war.
Diplomats are strange convoluted non humans.
You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. Jim would ban me. China threatens this every week. The Defense Department insisted that the weapons be kept in the United States. But Taiwanese pilots will be permitted to train with the missiles on U.S. Air Force ranges so they would be prepared to use them in combat, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.