Chinese officials have suggested their country has no money and appetite for "useless" and "expensive" European weapons, amid concerns over the expected lifting of the EU arms embargo later this year.
"China is a developing country, we do not have the money to buy a lot of weapons from your country [the EU] that are very expensive and useless to us", the Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, told journalists on Saturday (5 March), according to the AFP press agency.
He suggested ...
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