At the ATT, China Intervenes Against the EU

The Arms Trade Treaty, Day Four: As a New Draft Arrives, China Speaks and the EU Begs, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 22, 2013. "The fun began with an intervention on Wednesday by Germany, speaking on behalf of the EU, and asking—begging, really—for the EU to have the right to sign the treaty. Because the national interests in the EU are too diverse to allow it to settle on a common negotiating position, all the EU wants is the pathetic validation of its own existence that would derive from signing the treaty. It’s not in the room to achieve anything substantive."