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While many in the audience applauded Alliot-Marie’s position on U.S.-French cooperation, her stance on arms sales to China raised some brows. Alliot-Marie argued that France should not be held to an embargo standard ignored by states such as Russia and Israel...
...them from doing so? Yet so it proved. Not even a shared dinner of lobster risotto and truffle sauce could get Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac (who in this case speaks for Europe old and new) to agree on the European Union's plan to lift its embargo on supplying defense technology to China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Bush wants the embargo to stay, lest European goods one day be used against U.S. forces, who are pledged to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China. Chirac, by contrast, said that the embargo...
...With China's likely path still unclear, it hardly seems sensible to shift the balance of power in East Asia. And Europeans should be under no illusions: in Asia, ending the embargo will be seen as a case of China convincing the E.U. to do something the U.S. doesn't want. The policy shift, says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, will be evidence of nothing less than "a common interest in Europe and China to combat world domination by America." After a week in which Bush and European leaders reaffirmed their...
...Darfur is moving into the crunch phase. As the U.N. Security Council struggles to decide what to do next about the murders and abuse engulfing the western Sudan province, the U.S. is circulating a draft resolution that calls for more peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur; imposes an arms embargo on all parties to the violence, including the Khartoum government; freezes the assets of, and bans travel by, individuals suspected of war crimes; and restricts offensive military flights. "We want a strong resolution with the widest possible support but which also makes a real difference on the ground...
...before China's National People's Congress is expected to enact an anti-secession law that may require the mainland to declare war if Taiwan declares independence, and days before U.S. President George W. Bush went to Europe and tried to dissuade the E.U. from lifting its 16-year embargo on selling arms to China?arms that would be most useful for invading Taiwan. As a result, the cross-strait chessboard has become more like a game of go: more subtle and unpredictable. "I do think it was a surprise," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution...