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2005-03-06 China-Japan-Koreas

China says it has no need for "expensive" and "useless" European weapons

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Posted by phil_b 2005-03-06 09:22|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Source is Agency France Press.

"China is a developing country, we do not have the money to buy a lot of weapons from your country that are very expensive and useless to us," said Li at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) parliamentary session.

"your country" would be...frogistan. Looks like the Chinese know Islamic weapons haven't proved that succesful in practice. And besides, they've already stolen the designs they really want.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-06 9:55:05 AM|| 2005-03-06 9:55:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Much cheaper to steal "dual use" American technology.

Posted by DMFD 2005-03-06 10:08:37 AM|| 2005-03-06 10:08:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 thank you Bill Clinton and AlGore

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-06 10:15:28 AM|| 2005-03-06 10:15:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "China says it has no need for "expensive" and "useless" European weapons "

cant say i blame em , look at the eurofighter for a start ..

I think i would rather go into battle riding a Sopwith Camel than the Typhoon EF-2000 Eurofighter

Posted by MacNails 2005-03-06 10:16:28 AM|| 2005-03-06 10:16:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 lol this ones an all time classic, bet the euro weenies are pissed now lol ,ace

Posted by Shep UK 2005-03-06 10:46:28 AM|| 2005-03-06 10:46:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd prefer a Bristol BullDawg and a pair of AMRAAMs Mac. :)

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-06 11:10:09 AM|| 2005-03-06 11:10:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Like thisn.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-06 11:12:06 AM|| 2005-03-06 11:12:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is reverse psychology. They want the Euro stuff, because it incorporates a lot of American technology and is more advanced than the Russian stuff. When the EU starts selling to China, it will initially sell a lot, but it will need to sell the production technology as well to make any deals with the Chinese. For the EU, this is a poisoned chalice, because in the long run, the Chinese will put a lot of Euro arms manufacturers out of business. Just look at Russia - it has no industrial base whatsoever, but it has a thriving arms industry. China is developing a thriving industrial base via domestic- and foreign-owned civilian plants incorporating foreign-designed machine tools. Thanks to the EU, China will eventually end up replacing Russia (and the EU) as an alternative to Uncle Sam in the weapons market.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-06 12:59:55 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-06 12:59:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm certainly glad that American liberals are taking Europe to task for being so hypocritical, greedy, self-serving and treacherous. Those daily editorials in the NYT and on NPR and the networks are so refreshing, and we can only hope that the social pressure they bring to bear from plateau of morality, might convince Europe to emulate the US and stop supporting dictatorship and injustice.

/sarcasm

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-06 4:52:29 PM|| 2005-03-06 4:52:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 read - we will save our fighting manpower and counter American and Western dominance with People's War, aka "New Vietnams, plus the Clintons are for us!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-03-06 11:07:33 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-03-06 11:07:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Where's the Caps?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-06 11:09:28 PM|| 2005-03-06 11:09:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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