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Fresh from legitimizing Burma's military junta with a seat at the annual Asia-Europe Meeting this weekend, European leaders are now considering something far worse: ending the arms embargo on the Communist regime in China.
Today, in Hanoi, the EU's foreign ministers will be meeting to discuss the idea. Unsurprisingly, France is leading the charge: French President Jacques Chirac said his government favors lifting it despite the United States' opposition. American officials have repeatedly pushed the Europeans to maintain the embargo, which has been in place since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. But the Chinese appear to have redoubled their efforts in recent weeks to convince the EU to change its stance.See the full content of this document
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Arming Beijing?
Ending the embargo is a very bad idea, one that could create a major obstacle to defense coop...
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