Chen Binhua, the spokesperson from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

China's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson condemned US arms sales to the Taiwan region at Wednesday's press conference, stressing China's firm and consistent opposition to arms sales by relevant countries to the Taiwan region. Meanwhile, media reported Taiwan regional authorities claimed a new major US arms package is proceeding as scheduled under congressional review, renewing controversy and skepticism on the island.

Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made these remarks when responding to a media inquiry regarding a Reuters report that a major US arms package for the Taiwan region, which includes advanced interceptor missiles, is ready for approval by US President Donald Trump and could be signed following his trip to China.

The US side should abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, handle the issue of arms sales to Taiwan with prudence, and take concrete actions to safeguard the stability of China-US relations and peace across the Taiwan Straits, Chen stressed.

Amid mounting domestic doubts over the US' high-value arms sales to Taiwan region, Koo Li-hsiung, head of Taiwan's regional defense authority, who has been listed as diehard "Taiwan independence" separatist since 2022, claimed on Tuesday that the internal review process for the second batch of US arms sales to Taiwan is progressing as scheduled, and no information has been received indicating delays caused by Trump's postponed visit to China, ETtoday.net reported.

Separately, Reuters reported on Wednesday that at a hearing held by the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, US officials claimed that the US war on Iran has not delayed shipments of weapons to the Taiwan region or changed the US policy toward the island, despite the demands of the intense air campaign in the Middle East.
 
Such hype has also sparked widespread skepticism on the island. During a policy questioning session at the Taiwan region's legislative body on Tuesday, a legislator challenged the fact that the empty pledges have gone unfulfilled as "the Taiwan's regional defense authority has so far failed to give a clear account of what exactly will be procured with the 1.25 trillion New Taiwan dollars budget."

"For all its grand, empty pledges to Taiwan regional authorities and nonstop media hype around these arms deals, the US is doing nothing but peddling pie-in-the-sky promises that will never be fulfilled, while Taiwan separatists are burying their heads in the sand and deluding themselves," Zheng Jian, a professor at the Taiwan Research Institute of Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

Zheng noted that against the backdrop of declining living standards for Taiwan residents, the Taiwan regional authorities have spent huge sums on weapons for political gains to curry favor with the US, disregarding people's safety and pushing the cross-Straits situation into a dangerous abyss.

The expert also stressed that in fact, no amount of US weapons purchased by Taiwan will ever enable it to achieve the separatist goal of "Taiwan independence by force."

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated at a March 13 press conference that China's firm opposition to US arms sales to China's Taiwan region is consistent and clear. 

"The US needs to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques, especially the August 17 Communique of 1982, stop arms sales to Taiwan, and take concrete actions to uphold the steady growth of China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, said the spokesperson.