Re: China to buy Eurofighters?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 03:09:10 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil
hunt) wrote:

>item: In October, a Chinese official report called for greater trade
>with the EU, and for the EU's arms embrago against China to be
>lifted.
>
>item: German foreign minister Gerhard Schroder recently visited 
>China and said arms embrago should be lifted.
>
>item: a spokesman for EADS (large European arms manufacturer, which 
>is one of the main partners in Eurofighter) recently called for the 
>embargo to end.
>
>Any speculation as to what weapons China wants to buy? I think the 
>Eurofighter. Also on the shopping list might be ASRAAM, Meteor and
>ASTER anti-aircraft missiles.
>
>There's a more detailed discussion of this on my blog at:
><http://www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_97.html>


In my opinion selling them top of the line stuff is the height of
stupidity.  It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what the
situation is going to be with China and the West in ten to fifteen
years.