THE EU, the US, IRAN, and the ARMS EMBARGO on CHINA

What a shame. A polite, educational thread is torched in a matter of a few posts. Dookie accosts Fox and Fox accuses Dys of bringing his "gang" in to terrorize helpless neocons. Come on people...we can do better.

Heads up:
There are two interesting pieces relevant to this thread in the current edition of Foreign Affairs on:
a) how much we ought to take Iran to task with respect to their nuclear program by Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh
b) what we ought to do to try and reduce Formosa Strait tensions by Kenneth Lieberthal.

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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi says Italy favours lifting the EU's 17-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
On a visit to Beijing, Mr Prodi said Italy "leans to lifting the embargo" as soon as possible.

China has described the ban, imposed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, as a "relic of the cold war".

France has led calls for a lifting of the ban, but other EU countries have been more divided on the issue.



Italy for end to China arms embargo