{"id":281806,"date":"2010-02-05T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/world-turns-against-china-as-europe-sells-helicopters-to-taiwan-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-05T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:24:58","slug":"the-world-turns-against-china-as-europe-sells-helicopters-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281806","title":{"rendered":"The World Turns Against China, As Europe Sells Helicopters To Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China responded furiously<\/a> when the US announced a new arms sales to Taiwan, last week.<\/p>\n

But they remained silent today, as Taiwan announced a deal to buy 20 military helicopters from Europe, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hours after the deal was announced, state-owned newspaper China Daily had not updated its optimistic headline: “‘No Consensus’ to lift EU arms ban yet<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

China Daily also suggests that the arms deal may signify “a total warming for Sino-European ties.”<\/p>\n

But it’s hard to see a second arms deal as anything but an affront to China. As the growing economic superpower<\/a> can’t afford embargoes against both Europe and the U.S., Beijing may have to eat the insult, for now.<\/p>\n

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