Re: China to buy Eurofighters?

"tscottme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Scott Ferrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 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.
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> What makes you think the Europeans don't want the next problem for the
> US to be as bad as possible?  They have no hope of exceeding the US
> unless a full-scale war devastates the US.  The fact that it helps
> communists is a happy coincidence.
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In fact there is no prospect of the ban being lifted anytime soon.
While the French Government and some corporate bodies
have pressed for it the EU itself has stated that it has no
plans to lift the embargo and even if it did has stated that
other agreements controlling the arms trade would prevent
such deliveries taking place.

http://www.crienglish.com/144/2003-10-30/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

In fact the main suppliers of high tech weaponry to China
have been Israel and Russia and even the USA supplied
dual use technology supposedly for satellite launching
that is believed to have been used in the Chinese
missile program. Finally of course we miust recall that Boeing has a
large operation in China, publically states that it supports
the one China policy  and Condit is president of the
US China business council.

Keith