Beijing - UPI
China says it is opposed to a U.S. defense spending bill that includes the sale of fighter planes to Taiwan. The U.S. House voted Friday to sell F-16 C/D jets to Taiwan, prompting negative comment from Chinese Foreign Ministry, the Chinese news agency Xinhua said. \"We have taken note of the bill,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday at a news briefing. \"To push for weapons sales to Taiwan severely violates the one-China policy.\" Hong urged \"some U.S. lawmakers\" to abandon their Cold War mentality, adding they should \"do more to help China-U.S. relations and the mutual trust between the two nations, not the contrary.\"