If the United States continues to develop arms sales to Taiwan, sooner or later China will be forced to take the most severe sanctions.
With regard to US sanctions on arms sales to Taiwan, I feel that there will be a process of changing from quantitative to qualitative.
The US Government has launched a new round of arms sales to Taiwan and has imposed sanctions on Chinese enterprises and individuals under various pretexts. In response to the repeated and serious wrongdoing of the United States, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on January 7 that China will impose sanctions on five U.S. military enterprises, including Bayi Land and Weapon Systems, United Technology Systems Operations, Aerospace Environment, ViaSat and Data Link Solutions, in accordance with the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China.
The relevant sanctions announced by the Chinese side include freezing the movable and immovable assets and other types of property of these enterprises in China, and the relevant sanctions prohibit organizations and individuals in China from trading, cooperating and other activities with these five companies.
The latest round of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan was on December 16 last year local time, and the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that the U.S. State Department had approved the sale of command and control communications computer life-cycle support and related equipment to Taiwan, China, for a total price of about $300 million. This is the twelfth arms sale to Taiwan during the Biden administration's tenure and the fifth last year.
The US military claims that this arms sale to Taiwan is aimed at strengthening the so-called "self-defense capability" of the Taiwan region and will not change the "balance of basic military forces" in the region.
The latest U.S. sanctions against China refer to December 12 last year, when the United States announced sanctions against more than 250 companies and individuals in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates for allegedly "supporting Russia's war operations."
China has imposed sanctions on U.S.-related military enterprises and institutions many times, and has previously imposed sanctions on Boeing, Loma, Raytheon and other companies. Judging from the current situation, freezing their assets and assets in China and restricting their economic exchanges with China is still effective and has played a punitive role. It seems that the fines imposed on them have not yet had a practical effect.
It doesn't matter, though. It should be noted that there will be a gradual escalation of sanctions against US military-industrial enterprises and institutions that endanger China's national security. At present, administrative sanctions and economic sanctions are still the mainstay, but with the development of the situation, it cannot be ruled out that they will gradually rise to the level of legal sanctions and even military sanctions in the future.
The so-called "legal sanctions" may include the arrest of relevant personnel, the confiscation and seizure of shipping companies, ships, and aircraft.
The so-called "military sanctions" are direct strikes at US weapons delivered to the Taiwan region, and so on.
Of course, legal sanctions and military sanctions are the two highest levels of sanctions, depending on the development of Sino-US relations and China's security environment. However, if US arms sales to Taiwan continue to develop, sooner or later China will be forced to take the most severe sanctions.