BEIJING: China on Wednesday sharply criticized a senior Pentagon official's visit to Taiwan and reaffirmed that it had sanctioned two companies for supplying military equipment to the self-governing island democracy.

The comments from the Cabinet's Taiwan Affairs Office underscore the dramatic deterioration in relations between Beijing and Washington over Taipei, technology, spying allegations and, increasingly, Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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