From: ABC.Service.Langues@skynet.be   
      
   FRANCE laughs at the human rights in China (BBC News)   
      
   "Ernest"  a écrit dans le message de   
   news:6KydnVzPKNzHyt3fRVn-1Q@comcast.com...   
      
   > -"The European Union may have to delay lifting its arms embargo on China,   
   > - British officials said on Tuesday."   
   >   
   > No doubt the French are absolutely furious that the British are trying to   
   > prevent them from selling US military technology to China.   
   > -"The arms ban, imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, was widely   
   expected to be lifted later this year."   
   > > The French are no longer bothered by human-rights issues though, as   
   Chirac has made clear time and time again. He tried to protect and support   
   Saddam, he protects the brutal Arab government in the Sudan, and now he   
   wants to help the Chinese government build a modern army so that it can act   
   as a "counter-balance" to the US -and he wants to make a few Euros in the   
   process.   
   >  -"France and Germany are keen to lift the embargo and replace it with a   
   strengthened code of conduct on all EU arms sales."   
   > Translation: France wants to impose a "strengthened" code of conduct to   
   prevent other European countries from selling arms to China, while the   
   French make secret deals with the Chinese -much as they made secret deals   
   > with Saddam during the UN sanctions on Iraq and especially during the   
   oil-for-food program.   
   > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4371361.stm   
      
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