Should Europe lift its arms embargo on China?

Written by Charles Grant, 10 February 2010

Charles Grant, director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, published a paper last month arguing that Europeans need to agree on a single message in their dealings with China so that Beijing can't play a game of divide and conquer. At the same time, he said, the E.U. should "abandon the fiction of a 'strategic partnership,'" which cannot be meaningful with such divergent value systems, and focus on a limited number of issues on which China and the E.U. can find agreement.

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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1961947,00.html?xid=rss-topstories