Japan asks Denmark to oppose arms sales to China
22 November 2006
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen to keep an eye on China's military spending at an hour-long summit in Tokyo, AFP reported. "I would like to confirm Japan's opposition to the European Union's lifting of the arms embargo on China," Abe told Rasmussen, a fellow ally of US President George W. Bush. Japan and the US have long criticized China over military spending and strongly opposed European Union proposals to scrap a ban on arms exports to China, imposed after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests. France has been the main supporter of lifting the arms embargo.
