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"The EU needs a more critical approach towards China which contains real political threats" (Photo: European Commission)

The threat of a boycott

As EU Foreign Ministers meet in Slovenia for their regular informal discussion of world affairs, momentum is gathering for a tougher EU line towards China over Tibet.

President Sarkozy, the first EU leader to say that he had not ruled out a boycott of the Olympics, has been discussing policy towards China with Gordon Brown in London this week. Brown has of course already said that he will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits London in May. And Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, h...

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"The EU needs a more critical approach towards China which contains real political threats" (Photo: European Commission)

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