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France: Arming China Preserves 'Yin and Yang'
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| 2004-01-31)
Posted on 01/31/2004 2:46:53 PM PST by dennisw
France: Arming China Preserves 'Yin and Yang'(2004-01-31) -- Allowing European Union (EU) nations to sell advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance, according to the French Foreign Minister who wants the EU to drop its embargo on such sales.
"There is a balance in world affairs -- a yin and yang, if you will," said Dominique de Villepin (who is a man). "There will always be iron-fisted regimes and there will always be oppressed people yearning for freedom. It's part of the circle of life. By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained. Besides, if we don't sell to them, all the Chinese money keeps going to the Russians, whose weapons aren't nearly as effective as ours."
While the United States opposes arms sales due to China's record of human rights abuses, Mr. de Villepin said the term 'human rights' is "open to interpretation."
"It's such a loaded term," he said. "Every time the U.S. wants to stop us from arming a dictatorship, they throw out that red herring."
Mr. de Villepin said, however, that France and her allies had learned something from the experience of selling weapons to Saddam Hussein while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.
"As your American Girl Scouts say, 'get the money before you give them the cookies',"
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: china; chinastuff; eu; eussr; france; multipolarist; scrappleface; thinkbeforeyoupost
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:46:54 PM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
Insanity.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:49:32 PM PST
by
nuconvert
("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
To: dennisw
Is the whole country nuts or just their government?
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:52:24 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Which one of my selves were you talking to?)
To: dennisw
"By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained. Besides, if we don't sell to them, all the Chinese money keeps going to the Russians, whose weapons aren't nearly as effective as ours." France is the enemy. Nuke France - now.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:54:27 PM PST
by
etcetera
To: nuconvert
The damn French will arm the Chinese... they are totally nuts.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:54:30 PM PST
by
Dog
To: dennisw
I think if France extends its yang to China we should cut it off.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:56:31 PM PST
by
elfman2
To: etcetera
Look at this quote..
Mr. de Villepin said, however, that France and her allies had learned something from the experience of selling weapons to Saddam Hussein while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.
"As your American Girl Scouts say, 'get the money before you give them the cookies',"
The pompous.... arrogant...SOB!
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:57:42 PM PST
by
Dog
To: BipolarBob
Unbelievable. Perhaps one day real soon their action will come back to haunt them. Hopefully, the U.S. won't be a part of Red China's aggression, nor will the U.S. lift a finger to aid the French.
To: Dog
SET YOUR PARODY BITS! It's Scrappleface, for God's sake, and nobody named 'Haywood Jablome' is to be taken the slightest bit seriously....
To: dennisw
Symptom of a brain dead culture when its foreign minister looks at communist fascism and capitalistic democracy and calls the two yen and yang.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:58:51 PM PST
by
elfman2
To: elfman2
He admits they broke the UN sanctions.....and is rubbing everyones nose in it.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:59:16 PM PST
by
Dog
To: dennisw
By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained. This man is deranged.
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posted on
01/31/2004 2:59:25 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: dennisw
You know what's bad? I would've only been mildly surprised had this not come from scrappleface.
MM
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
I fell for it...LOL!
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:00:03 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
I eventually realized that, but it really seemed so authentically French.
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:01:00 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(It is always tempting to impute unlikely virtues to the cute)
To: Dog
Absolutely!
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:01:01 PM PST
by
nuconvert
("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
To: dennisw
sell[ing] advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance
Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and the UN have been saying the same thing for years.
The bad news is they gave away a lot of our technology and our patent database to China when they were in power to "even things out". Bill Clinton has often said that the US is not going to be the "big dog on the block" anymore and has actively tried to make that happen.
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
It's Scrappleface Man, these people are easily fooled! I have seen bona-fide responses to The Onion f'rgawdsake.
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:01:32 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: dennisw
" ScrappleFace, the daily news satire site<.b>" Okay dude, you got me
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:03:03 PM PST
by
elfman2
To: dennisw
France's Foreign Minister is openly advocating selling arms to ideological and military opponents of the United States. Not just for the money but as a global military power balance destabilization tactic, by his own admission. Anyone who doesn't see the writing on the wall is a fool. France is waging a covert war with the US in the form of arms and technology transfers out of the western block alliance. They need to be stopped dead in their tracks now by whatever means necessary.
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posted on
01/31/2004 3:03:58 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
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