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says they're not going to change the military balance of power, but will help Taiwan maintain a credible deterrent.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a press briefing that the deal harms China's sovereignty and will push the Taiwan Strait closer to war.
attempt to aid Taiwan's independence with arms will only backfire, he added, and its attempt to use Taiwan to contain China will absolutely not succeed.
President Trump says he plans to visit China next April.
It's unclear whether the arms sale could affect that trip.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
The quake was felt across large swaths of the country's north and northeast.
Japan's meteorological agency put the quake's magnitude at 7.6.
Geological Survey put it at a depth of 33 miles below the ocean's surface.
Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate coastal areas.
Bullet trains in the region stopped, nuclear power plants were checked for damage, and the government set up a response room at the Prime Minister's Office Crisis Management Center.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
Japan's Defense Ministry said that its planes were shadowing fighter jets that had taken off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning near Japan's Okinawa Island on Saturday.
Japan says the Chinese planes twice locked radars, usually used for weapons targeting, onto the Japanese planes.
China says it had notified Japan of the carrier's exercises and claims the Japanese planes put its planes at risk by approaching the training area.
This comes as China and Japan are embroiled in the worst diplomatic feud in over a decade.
Tensions erupted last month after Japan's Prime Minister, Sanae Takeuchi, suggested that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could justify a Japanese military response.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
South Korea says North Korean troops have crossed the Military Demarcation Line, or MDL, at the center of the DMZ more than 10 times this year, while building roads and fences and laying mines, sometimes forcing the South to fire warning shots.