Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/255898 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 4/2004
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The EU seems ready to move towards lifting its 15 year old arms embargo against China. The governments of France and Germany favour such a revision. To China, the embargo is a relic of the Cold War that hinders co-operation with the EU. The EU Summit of 24-26 March, however, did not make a decision (which has to be unanimous). Some member states have not yet come forward with a clear position. There are still discussions concerning not only possible human-rights concessions by China, but also the question of whether the termination of the embargo would be a largely symbolic act, without any real effect on the arms export policies of the EU member states. The U.S. position, however, is quite clear: Washington opposes lifting the embargo. Should the EU end it, China policy could become another source of transatlantic tension. (SWP-Comments / SWP)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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