When Jacques Chirac’s government decided to expound its economic co-operation with China, arms became an important component in the strategy. Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970’s, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive dictatorship.
中国和法国是如何愚弄了欧盟，使其决定要介入其中的呢？当希拉克政府决定要解释与中国的经济合作时，武器成为该战略中的重要一环。正如那位冷酷无情的希拉克总理在1970年代将核反应堆出售给萨达姆那样，当今的希拉克总统正被诱使着和另一个侵略性的独裁政权进行巨额交易。