Re: China to buy Eurofighters?

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:04:27 GMT, Scott Ferrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.

You say that as if you assume hostility is obviously going to 
happen. I'd like to see your reasoning for that...

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