China-Japan-UN-EU-"foreign policy implications of possible European Union arms exports to China"

Who wants a strong China? William R. Hawkins, Washington Times, May 4, 05

William R. Hawkins is senior fellow for national security studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council.

On April 14, an unusual joint hearing was held by the House International Relations and Armed Services committees. At issue were the national security and foreign policy implications of possible European Union arms exports to China.

The clear concern of the assembled members of Congress was the enhanced threat from China to U.S. and allied forces if it gained advanced European weapons technology.

[. . . . ] As recently as last January, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan stated, "The past 15 years have shown China's decision was correct" to order troops to massacre students in Tiananmen Square. And the regime has committed aggression against nearly all its neighbors since World War II, as well as supported world revolutionaries, terrorists and rogue states. [. . . . ]

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