With Allies Like These. . .

France cozies up to China:

China and France began five days of joint exercises off the northern Chinese coast Tuesday, prompting Taiwan to claim it was a threatening show of force.

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France is also lobbying EU countries to drop the 15-year-old embargo on arms sales to China, imposed after the brutal 1989 suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators, the Financial Times said.

Of course France wants to sell arms to China, because it can't sell arms to Iraq now that Saddam is out of business.