Donald Trump was critical of China during his successful 2016 presidential campaign but his meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with President Xi raised hopes for warmer relations. Photo / AP
China has urged the US to revoke immediately its "wrong decision" to sell Taiwan $US1.42 billion worth of arms, saying it contradicted a "consensus" President Xi Jinping reached with his counterpart, Donald Trump, in talks in April in Florida.
The sale would send a very wrong message to "Taiwan independence"
forces, China's embassy in Washington said in a statement after a US State Department spokeswoman said the administration had told Congress of seven proposed sales to Taiwan, the first under the Trump administration.
"The Chinese government and Chinese people have every right to be outraged," the embassy said.
China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a renegade province and has never renounced the use of force to bring it back under its control.
China's Nationalists fled to the island after losing a civil war with China's Communists in 1949.
