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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-05 12:13 AM
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EU arms-sales ban `will not be lifted'
Edited on Fri May-20-05 12:15 AM by dArKeR
The 25-nation EU is abandoning, for now, a plan to lift its 15-year-old embargo on weapons sales to China, a senior German legislator said.

"It will not be lifted," said Volker Ruehe, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the German parliament, on Wednesday. He said the reason was China's recent adoption of the "Anti-Secession" Law threatening military action against Taiwan.

"It would send the wrong signal," said Ruehe, who was in Washington primarily to urge the Bush administration to endorse a proposal for permanent seats on the UN Security Council for Germany and five other countries.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/20/2003255821

Haliburton, Rumsfeld and the Bush Crime Family will find a way around this to make sales. They did with Iraq.

One Chinese man who stands in front of the White House is nuts and one man who stands in front of Communist tanks is a hero so... (I'm sleepy, finish my thought!)
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-05 12:17 AM
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1. France did sell
some machine-gun stuff to China less than 25 years ago.
I won't say how I know.
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