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Europe Urges Linking Lifting
of Chinese Arms Ban to Rights
(NYT, Apr. 15, 2005) Europe seemed farther away than ever from lifting its
16-year-old arms embargo on China, after statements by the German foreign minister
and a vote in the European Parliament, both of which urged linking the
embargo question to human rights.
China Criticizes EU for
Reconsidering Plan to Lift Arms Embargo (Bloomberg, Mar. 23, 2005) China criticized the European Union for
reconsidering a plan to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo because China passed
a law that would authorize war against Taiwan should the island declare
independence.
European Union Said to Keep
Embargo on Arms to China
(NYT, Mar. 22, 2005) Yielding to pressure from President Bush and threats of
retaliation from Congress, the European Union has put off plans to lift its
arms embargo on China this spring and may not press the issue until next
year.
Rice Warns against China
Expanding Its Military with EU Technology (AFP, Mar. 20, 2005) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
European weapons technology should not be used by China to expand its
military as she again warned against the lifting of an EU arms embargo to the
communist country.
U.S. Lawmakers Warn Europe
on Arms Sales to China
(NYT, Mar. 2, 2005) Senior members of Congress from both parties emerged from
a meeting with President Bush warning Europe that if it lifts its ban on arms
sales to China, the United States may retaliate with severe restrictions on
technology sales to European companies.
MOFA Says It Welcomes E.U.
to Play Bigger Role in Cross-Strait (CNA, Feb. 8, 2005)
Taiwan welcomes the European Union to play a bigger role in cross-Taiwan
Strait issues and hopes that the international community can voice its
opposition to Beijing's proposed "anti-secession" law.
EU Not Lifting China Arms
Embargo
(Straits Times, Dec. 9, 2004) China was dealt a blow when the European Union
reiterated it was not ready to lift a 15-year weapons embargo against it. But
EU officials expressed hope that the ban may be lifted next year.
China Warrants an Arms
Embargo
(Editorial, New York Times, Mar. 28, 2005) It is hard to imagine what China's
leaders figured they had to gain by pushing through a law authorizing an
attack on Taiwan if it moves toward formal independence.
Europe's Shift on Embargo
Places Taiwan at Center Stage By Joseph Kahn (New York Times, Mar. 23, 2005)
Reports of a shift in European plans to lift an arms embargo on China have
sent a sobering message to China's new leadership, underscoring the
sensitivity of its Taiwan policy and the continued dominance of the United
States.
Why the EU Arms Embargo
Should Stay By Steve
Tsang
(Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2005) Lifting the arms embargo against
China, imposed by the European Union in 1989, is an important issue that goes
beyond how the EU should handle its relations with China.
Selling Arms to China: If
Europe Has To Do It, Here's How By Philip H. Gordon and James B. Steinberg (IHT, Mar. 18, 2005)
On many U.S.-European policy differences, whether in the Middle East or Iraq,
Americans themselves are divided, and many even share the European view. But
on selling arms to China, U.S. public and political opinion is united.
US Attitude to Beijing Seems
To Be Changing By Jiang Wenran
(Taipei
Times, Mar. 11, 2005) Lost in the debates about whether the EU should lift
its arms export embargo on China is a much broader and more pressing
question: Does the White House once again see China as a strategic
competitor?
Upsetting Asia's Delicate
Balance By Michael Elliott
(Time Asia, Mar. 7, 2005) The security of Taiwan, however, does not seem to
have entered into European calculations. Though Europeans seem blithely
unaware of it, the strategic balance in East Asia is extraordinarily fragile.
Europe Wants China Sales but
Not Just of Weapons By Mark Landler (New York Times, Feb. 24, 2005) Much more is at
stake in Europe's decision than whether it sells French fighter jets or
German submarines to Beijing - namely broader commercial ties and some
genuine diplomacy.
Bush Says Europe Should Not
Lift Its China Arms Embargo
(New York Times, Feb. 23, 2005) A simmering dispute with Europe came to the
forefront when President Bush said there was "deep concern" in the
United States that lifting the European Union's arms embargo against China
would change the balance of relations between China and Taiwan.
Don't Lift the Arms Embargo
on China By David Shambaugh
(International Herald Tribune, Feb. 23, 2005) China will just have to live
with it until it comes to terms with Tiananmen and stops putting military
pressure on Taiwan.
An Arms Cornucopia For
China? By John Rossant
(BusinessWeek, Feb. 21, 2005) Europe will probably lift its embargo, but
companies will be careful what they sell. All of the
European defense contractors want more business in the U.S., and they are
starting to get it.
Europa: EU vs. U.S. vs.
China: Partnership Paradoxes By Richard
Bernstein (International Herald Tribune, Jan. 21,
2005) Probably the next big strategic difference between Europe and the United
States- China, which, in the official European view is a "strategic
partner," even as Chinese-American rivalry looms.
US Fury over EU Weapons for
China By Anton La Guardia
(Telegraph, Jan. 15, 2005) America is waging an intense behind-the-scenes
battle to stop the European Union lifting its 15-year-old arms embargo
against China.
Taiwan Nervous about
Possible End of EU Arms Embargo for China (AP, Oct. 3, 2004) The
Taiwanese argue that dropping the ban would shake up the delicate military
balance in Asia and increase the threat of war with Taiwan.
Europe Dragged into
Cross-Strait Dispute By Jonathan
Eyal
(Straits Times, July 11, 2004) Both by accident and design, the 'old
continent' is caught up in the China-Taiwan saga. Unlike the US, however,
Europe never had much influence over either China or Taiwan.
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