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Article: EU/CHINA: BEIJING SEEKS END TO ARMS BAN.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- October 15, 2003
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The call to lift the weapons ban came in the very last sentence of the 4,000-word report. It also advocated increased "high-level" military and strategic exchanges. It is expected to be discussed at the EU's fifth Summit with China, in Beijing on October 30, which will gather European Commission President Romano Prodi, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and China's new President Hu Jintao.
However, China also asked the EU not to sell weapons or military technology to Taiwan, the island off its South-Eastern coast that Beijing considers sovereign territory. Taiwan effectively operates as a separate nation with a democratically-elected Government - but it is ...