China told a visiting senior US military commander today that America must stop selling weapons to Taiwan and end military exchanges with the self-ruled island, an official news report said.

Submarine commander Scott Waddle, whose vessel rammed a Japanese school boat killing nine people, has been found guilty of two violations of military law.

US Navy officers met today with local Japanese Government officials to explain possible disciplinary action facing the skipper of a submarine that sank a Japanese high school fishing training vessel.