Hello Elmat, <<EU leaders to review arms embargo on China>> ... there should be plenty on the shopping list.
... China supposedly will launch up to 3 new nuke-powered and nuke armed ballistic subs starting in 2004, each carrying 16 missiles, and each missile loaded with up to 8 warheads, constituting a deterrent of 384 WMDs, augmenting whatever is supposedly available with land-based systems (appr. 200) already.
Following a recent sub accident that took the lives of 90 crew in a boat meant for 60+ (supposedly testing some new goodies that went wrong), another Chinese sub supposedly sporting retrofitted geewhizbang propellers recently surfaced on the Pacific side of Japan, having slipped silently and rapidly past the ring of US-installed listening devices undetected, shown the flag while on the surface, which is unusual duty for submarine, and then returned to port.
Europe, definitely termed 'old' by young-at-heart Rumsfeld with much attitude and perhaps with plenty of inexperienced foolishness, is and will continue to be a serious force for global balance, and in order to remain and perhaps augment its relevancy, Europe (France, Germany and Russia) will have a natural interest to help China along (Britain is viewed to be just playing along so as to not completely miss out on the buying orders and so as to be in position to play a spoiling role later; else Britain will be cut out of the loop now), by and by, and so the ancient Chinese classic, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" threekingdoms.com , always guiding Chinese strategic thinking, is taking shape in 3D.
This, together with WAT-WOT-whatnot busy-ness and foreign-financed debt-ly sins, most assuredly had nothing what-so-ever to do with the current stance by Bush on Taiwan ;0)
This new wrinkle in world geopolitic affairs will no doubt provide much amusement in the next few years.
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