Obama approved a $6 billion arms sale to China, for the first time in the history of Chinese - US relations. The Communist State is threatening to impose sanctions against US companies that supply Taiwan with arms. Dina Gusovsky discuss the new arms deal with Philip de Leon, who says this is a part of a cycle; from calm to tense relations between the two nations.
At the same time, Communist-American relations are at a low ebb because of the recent sale of weapons to Taiwan, an island nation that the Chinese mainlanders still consider a part of China.