China to buy Eurofighters?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:36:29 -0800, Tarver Engineering wrote:

"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:11:46 -0600, tscottme wrote:
Scott Ferrin wrote in message
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In my opinion selling them top of the line stuff is the height of
stupidity. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what the
situation is going to be with China and the West in ten to fifteen
years.

What makes you think the Europeans don't want the next problem for the
US to be as bad as possible? They have no hope of exceeding the US
unless a full-scale war devastates the US.

The EU will exceed the US economically next year (if it hasn't
already).

Nope: http://www.eurolegal.org/uspoleur.shtml

Doesm't disagree with me. It shows thje EU's GDP as about 10% less
than the USA's, which difference will be made up next year when 10
new countries join. Furthermore, the euro has been appreciating
against the dollar (by 20% this year) so if we count GDP at current
exchange rates (the other way being PPP) the EU may already be
ahead.

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