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Annette Lu lashes out at Germany for cozying up to China

Outspoken Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) has criticized Germany's support for the lifting of an EU embargo on exports of military-use high-technology exports to China, in comments given to German television station ARD and seen by Deutsche Presse-Agentur yesterday.

Lu also criticized the German government's plan to allow the sale of an unused plutonium reprocessing plant to China, in an interview scheduled to be aired by ARD tomorrow.

"It will be funny if any country like Germany would agree to share high-tech and especially massive destructive weapons [weapons of mass destruction] with China, which is known to be very hegemonic," Lu said.

"In a way we Taiwanese view that China, if they don't stop deploying missiles, can be considered as state terrorists," she said. "And if your great country supports them, that is something incredible."

Plans for the plutonium plant deal were announced during a visit to China by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder early last month.

Schroeder also told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) that Germany would work for the lifting of an EU embargo on arms sales to China, which was imposed after the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. Germany was the second major EU country, after France, to urge the lifting of the embargo.

In her interview with ARD, Lu defended President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) plan to hold a referendum on March 20.

"The people in Taiwan are facing not only a crisis of missiles. We are also facing a crisis of value," she said.

"So often the world leaders emphasize peace, justice and human rights. However, the way they spoil China just confuses those values."
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