China accuses US of arrogance over Taiwan deal

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China's state media has accused the United States of "arrogance" and "double standards" in pursuing arms sales to Taiwan, reports BBC.
The state-run China Daily and the Global Times also warned that China's threats of retaliation were real. The Obama administration approved the $6.4bn arms sale to Taiwan last week.
China has warned of "serious harm" to relations between the two powers, the suspension of military contact and sanctions against the firms involved. The US has said it will go ahead with the sale anyway.
China's state media said Mr Obama must have been "insincere" when he promised not to "contain" China.
The US move "exposes the US's usage of double standards and hypocrisy on major issues related to China's core interests," the China Daily said.
The People's Daily said in a commentary that the arms sales showed Washington's "rude and unreasonable Cold War thinking".
Taiwan has been ruled by a separate government from China since the end of the civil war in 1949, but China still considers the island to be part of its territory.
Beijing has hundreds of missiles pointed at Taiwan and has threatened to use force to bring it under its control if the island moves towards formal independence.
Defence ties between Washington and Beijing have been on ice for several years because of differences over Taiwan, though the two countries' leaders pledged to improve them in 2009.
The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, but it remains Taiwan's biggest ally and is obliged by the Taiwan Relations Act to help in the island's defence.
The US State Department said on Saturday that the weapons sale contributed to "security and stability" between Taiwan and China.
But China said the row would endanger co-operation with the US on "key international and regional issues."