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The China Syndrome

In building up China, is Europe becoming America's enemy?

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Engagement is a better strategy than isolation for encouraging the development of a free China. However, engagement need not mean strengthening the PRC's military.

China offers enormous economic opportunities and poses serious military threats. Luxembourg's ambassador to America, Arlette Conzemius, says that "the EU wants to show that it is a global partner of the U.S., as it grows stronger." Here's Europe's chance to do so.

Beijing will become a significant military power with or without European arms sales. In today's uncertain world there's no need to hurry the process along.

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Foreign Policy, Trade, Business, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Israel, European Union, NATO, Nuclear Weapons

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).

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