BRIEF
China Sanctions Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Due to Arms Sales to Taiwan
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning confirmed new sanctions targeting American aerospace/defense/military corporations Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, due to their arms sales to the country of Taiwan. A nation which the Chinese government has claimed as being a breakaway state, and part of their disputed territory, since as far back as 1949 at the end of the civil war in China, the war from 1928 at its start until its end claimed the lives of close to 10 million people, including civilians.