Will China take America's arms sales to Taiwan as a provocation, or as a reason to start talking? Talk of a new "cold war" between China and America is starting to sound like an understatement. This week Chinese officials were expressing their "anger" at the largest sale since the early 1990s of American weapons to Taiwan, which China claims as its own. Meanwhile, the two still trade bad-tempered barbs over the recent mid-air collision that left a Chinese pilot dead and forced an American spy plane to make an emergency landing on China's Hainan island.
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