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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (4179)	1/15/2005 11:11:11 PM
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Blair defies Bush over weapons sales to China BRIAN BRADY WESTMINSTER EDITOR TONY Blair has turned down an appeal from George Bush to block controversial European plans to lift the 15-year-old ban on the sale of weapons to China. Bush has made a series of pleas to the Prime Minister to halt the European Union’s progress towards removing the arms embargo, imposed in the wake of the brutal suppression of the burgeoning Chinese opposition movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989. White House spokesmen have made it clear that they fear allowing China access to one of the biggest arms markets in the world could disrupt the fragile balance of power across the world, and particularly in Asia. But, in "a dangerous" move that could threaten British access to American military technology and freeze UK defence firms out of the lucrative US market, Blair has now signalled that he is prepared to give his full support to ongoing EU moves to replace the embargo with a code of conduct. Days after Foreign Secretary Jack Straw revealed that he expected the EU to drive through plans to lift the outright ban within the next six months, Foreign Office staff have now confirmed that Blair has told Washington that he will not use the ‘special relationship’ to wreck the proposals. news.scotsman.com