Lifting the EU's Arms Embargo: Geopolitical Wins and Losses

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Lifting the European Union's Arms Embargo:
Geopolitical Wins and Losses
Source: PINR, April 8, 2005
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MarioPro · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

Russia to suffer when
EU lifts China embargo
Source: ISN Security Watch, April 8, 2005
If Moscow loses its best source of leverage on China, how will
that affect the future of Sino-Russian relations as well as the
status of Russia's defense industrial complex?

China criticizes EU
for delaying embargo lift
Source: ISN Security Watch, March 23, 2005
Beijing views the EU delay in lifting the embargo - which was
scheduled for the end of June - as a discriminatory move that
would harm EU-Chinese relations.
"China's position is clear. The EU embargo is political discrimination [...]
We hope the EU will stop this discrimination for the sake of honoring
the 34th anniversary of EU-China ties," Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Liu Jianchao said in a statement.
EU officials said Beijing's new anti-secession law against Taiwan,
approved last week, had complicated plans to lift the arms embargo.

Lifting the China embargo:
the EU's trade gambit
Source: ISN Security Watch, March 14, 2005
The EU's announcement that it intends to lift the arms embargo
against China has generated outcry over human-rights abuses in
China and concerns over the balance of power across the Taiwan
Strait. How effective is the embargo at enforcing human rights, and
how significant a role will transatlantic trade and energy policy play
in determining the outcome of the debate?

A prisoner's dilemma:
The EU's China arms embargo
Source: ISN Security Watch, June 30, 2004
In April, the EU dodged a bullet by refusing to take up the
issue of overturning its 15-year-old ban on selling arms to
China. Supporters of lifting the embargo, led by France and
Germany, are unlikely to abandon their quest, however,
and the issue will likely come up again for review, perhaps
as early as this summer. If it lifts the ban, the EU risks further
damaging a transatlantic alliance already strained over Iraq
and other issues, with very little likelihood that its defense
industry would see much, if any, benefit.

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