Yea, more French-bashing you bitches:
In China’s newspapers the best they could do in citing countries that supported the law besides France was fricking Cuba.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. The US will be at war, proxy or otherwise, in 50 years.
We’re already at war, proxy and otherwise.
I’m sure we’ve done some shady shit to sell weapons to other countries as well.
Well, crap. I knew France is a leader in trying to get the arms embargo lifted, but I could have sworn that Chirac had critized the anti-secession law. Very disappointing.
That said, that makes France wrong, not scummy.
That’s probably just quid pro quo for those rice cookers.
I don’t know manny. Here you have a country with billion dollar oil development deals and a number of people on Saddam’s payroll that said it wouldn’t support any resolution that included an ultimatum against Iraq (based on a moral highground), now saying, on the same day as a $4 billion dollar Airbus deal is signed with China, that they support a new law authorizing China to use military force, if necessary, to maintain their imperial interests, and that, by the way, they can’t wait to get the arms embargo lifted. I suppose it doesn’t matter that we’re in a treaty to defend Taiwan. If hypocrisy and turning on one’s “friends,” is just wrong, I sure as hell don’t want to be scummy.
Why would China want Europe’s arm?
This whole “oh, China is our enemy now because…uh…we need an enemy” thing is so forced, not particularly true, and not very smart. China is a big power and has a lot of pretty big shortcomings, but they are not at all hostile towards the US nor us to them. They have relatively little in terms of expansionist desires and are working more and more to become a member of the world community.
They recently signed an unprecedented agreement with India, for example, that will lift decades of animosity and small-scale threats (India would occasionally find Chinese tank tracks in the border areas, for example.) They are one of our biggest trading partners. And they are a great trading partner. The average Chinese income right now is about twice that of India. They are no longer the “starving Chinese” or at all a third world nation. Instead they are a nation that is clamoring for cars and cell phones and refidgerators and the trappings of industrial society. And America is pretty well suited to fill those needs and make a lot of cash off it- it’s kind of like all the money we are making developing Iraq and Afghanistan, but without the need to take anything over.
And hopefully, if all the globalists are right, all these consumer goods and all this money will lead of a softening of the regime and eventually a country that looks a lot more like ours. Anyway, I’d rather be in China than Russia right now.
“Nations Don’t Have Freinds,” example #39212.
“Scummy” will be when they start rationalizing away China’s human rights abuses and cozying up to dicatators. Oh, wait…
[sub]And before someone says it – when the US does it, its scummy too.[/sub]
With France or China?
Errr…Europes arms…
It was the nature of the ultimatum that was the problem.
Italics and bolding mine.
The treasons for this decision were quite clearly put forward by Dominique de Villepin.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/07/villepin.transcript/
Although I don’t agree with their position, I wouldn’t go so far as call it treason…
France. We’ll probably get along fine with China.
yojimbo that has to be one of the funnier Freudian slips I’ve seen in a while.
Doh!
Finger more than freudian. The T is very near the R on this laptop 
Still funny though.
OTOH, there’s nothing funny about your continued misrepresentation of France’s stand prior to the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.
They were right.