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Are EU arms dealers violating China weapons ban?

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May 25, 2012
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When the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force recently spotted a Chinese navy flotilla sailing into the West Pacific, what disturbed them was not just that the Chinese went through the Osumi Strait, a sea lane off Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture usually used by the US 7th Fleet.

The subsequent exercise spotlighted an apparent violation committed by a European …

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