Beijing called on Washington to immediately withdraw its latest planned arms sales to Taiwan and cease military contacts with the island to avoid more damage to China-US relations, China Daily reported.

"The US arms sales to Taiwan severely violates the international law, the basic norms governing international relations, the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués and undermines China's sovereignty and security interests. The Chinese side is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the US plan on arms sales to Taiwan. We have lodged stern representations with the US side on this.

It must be stressed that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. No one can shake the strong will and determination of the Chinese government and people in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity and opposing foreign interference. The Chinese side urges the US side to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, immediately cancel the above-mentioned plan on arms sales to Taiwan and stop its military links with Taiwan lest it should cause more harm to China-US ties and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," Senior Colonel Ren Guo­qiang, a spokesman at the Ministry of National Defense, said in an online statement on Tuesday.