who the fawk is this be-atch..

Rice warns Europeans on arms sales to China By Glenn Kessler

BEIJING – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sternly warned European allies Sunday that they “should do nothing” that alters the military balance of power in Asia through sales of sophisticated weapons to China, suggesting that those arms ultimately could be directed at Americans. “It is the United States – not Europe – that has defended the Pacific,” Rice told a news conference in Seoul before she flew to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials. Later, like two of her predecessors, she attended church service at a government-sanctioned church, making a symbolic political statement about the lack of religious freedom in China.

The European Union had appeared all but certain this year to lift an embargo on weapons sales imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of democracy demonstrators. U.S. officials have expressed dismay over the decision, especially after China passed a law this month authorizing the use of force against Taiwan if it moves toward formal independence. Rice also had talks this weekend in Japan and South Korea, both of which fear China will improve its military capabilities.

Rice cited U.S. concerns about the rise of Chinese military spending and the increasing sophistication of Chinese military power. “The European Union should do nothing to contribute to a circumstance in which Chinese military modernization draws on European technology or even the political decision to suggest that it could draw on European technology,” she said.

The United States will bolster its forces in response to such sales in order to keep the current military balance intact, she added.

Nearing the end of her weeklong tour of Asia, Rice consulted closely with officials in Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing about efforts to persuade North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks. Rice struck a careful public balance this weekend, offering softer diplomatic language while also visiting an underground military command center in South Korea.

the assbyte quotient of this comment is stupendous... we are unilaterally telling europe that they better not make profit off of Asia because that is our perview only. yet of course China and the rest of Asia have no interest whatsoever in purchasing sheit from us, because they don't want to be stuck protecting US dollars any more... what glaring idiotic mendacity by this moron...