Our friends the Europeans...

From EuroSoc comes this story: bq. Painting The Town Red For China PARIS: The Chinese president is in town today and the French are desperately sucking up to their new friend. In the light of peace-loving French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin's plea that the EU should lift its arms embargo on China, perhaps it is time to revisit an article on EU-China relations EURSOC published last year. bq. In an article in October entitled Friends like these we noted that Europe's left cannot contain its excitement that China may one day reach economic and military parity with the United States. The prospect that America could be challenged by an aggressive competitor across the Pacific has some anti-Americans wetting themselves with anticipation. They then continue to say that: bq. The ban on arms sales to China dates to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when China's armed forces shot numerous democracy protestors and later imprisoned many more. And more: bq. Fifteen years after the atrocity, France welcomes the Chinese president Hu Jintao to Paris. To celebrate China's ruling party, the Eiffel Tower was bathed in red light - a symbolic gesture of support that should not be lost on the Tiananmen Square survivors and their families. Eurosoc is a blog that I am watching now on a regular basis - consistently good news and accurate reporting.