(Filed: 15/01/2005) Lifting the EU arms embargo on China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, has been on the cards for a while. European leaders considered it 13 months ago and in December, at a summit with China, declared their "political will" to remove it. On Wednesday, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who will visit Beijing next week, said he expected that decision to be taken by the middle of the year. A sanction that China claims is a "product of the Cold War" appears in EU eyes to have outlived its usefulness. In conjunction with their declaration...