From Alert 5 via France24.com...
The lifting of the embargo on all lethal weapons "could happen very quickly," a source close to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the paper.Read the whole thing but I wonder...Is this just a gateway to US tech? With EU countries building parts of the F-35...with AirBus potentially building the next generation Air Force Tanker...with major US defense corporations having entities in Europe...
It said that the embargo was considered a slap in the face for the world's second largest economic bloc as well as militarily ineffective by the EU as China increasingly builds its own weapons.
A confidential report presented to the last European Union summit that ended on December 17 described the embargo as "a major obstacle" to Europe-China security and foreign policy cooperation.
As a result "the EU should draw the practical conclusions and go ahead," the report said.
Does this mean that we (through the EU) will be selling a hostile power the very weapons that they will one day use against our own forces?