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China has responded robustly to Washington’s decision to impose military sanctions — opening up key diplomatic channels to air its protest, and recalling its visiting naval official from the U.S. It has also cancelled an upcoming defence officials meeting in Beijing later this month. On Friday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang, summoned Terry Branstad, the U.S. Ambassador to China, to lodge Beijing’s protest over Washington’s plan to sanction a Chinese military organisation and its head for buying Russian weapons. A day earlier, the U.S. State Department had announced that it was sanctioning the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, and the department’s director, for violating the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). The U.S. invoked the act because of China’s purchase from Russia of S-400 missiles and the SU-35 fighter jets. Separately, Huang Xueping, deputy head of the CMC’s office for international military cooperation, summoned the acting defence attaché at the U.S. Embassy on Saturday evening. Mr. Huang said that China will immediately recall Navy commander Shen Jinlong, who is in the U.S. to attend a symposium, and postpone the second meeting of a communication mechanism for the joint staff departments of China and the United States, scheduled for September 25-27 in Beijing.
