Rice Warns Europe Not To Sell Advanced Weaponry To China

Washington Post via Yahoo News ^ | 3-21-2005 | Glen Kessler

[Pendragon_6]

BEIJING, March 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) sternly warned European allies on Sunday that they "should do nothing" that alters the military balance of power in Asia through sales of sophisticated weapons to China, suggesting that those arms ultimately could be directed at Americans.

"It is the United States -- not Europe -- that has defended the Pacific," Rice said at a news conference in Seoul before she flew to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials. Later, like two of her predecessors, she attended a service at a government-sanctioned church, making a symbolic political statement about the lack of religious freedom in China.

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[newgeezer]

Wonder how many posts it'll take for some Condi fawner to say she's Presidential material.

[DollarCoins]

Unfortunately I do not think the Europeans will head to Condi's advice. What will be the next step in this battle?

[Plymouth Sentinel]

Geezer,

If fifty percent of your post employs sarcasm, then fifty is bereft of sarcasm.

You appear to have been the first.

[henderson field]

Here's where the "Global Economy" begins to crumble. We'll be better off in the long run being self-contained: manufacturing, marketing, the whole package. I wonder how much money U.S. companies will make in China when China is at war with us? Or how many U.S. products and services Europe will buy from us when our relationships have soured?

[Solamente]

And if missiles must be shot down, Europe might not like where they fall to earth!