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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : EU leaders, eager to promote trade with China at the expense of the security of the United States and Taiwan, seem ready to lift the arms embargo by mid-2005.
50% : The EU had insisted that China improve its human rights record before it would lift the embargo, but even by EU standards, respect for civil and human rights has continued to deteriorate in the 15 years since 1989.
49% : North Korea's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the hard-won stability on the Korean peninsula as well as global non-prolifera­tion regimes.
47% : North Korea responded by expelling United Nations inspectors from its nuclear facility at Yongbyon, restarting its reactors, and abandoning the NPT.
47% : It must make the TNI (the Indonesian armed forces) subject to civilian authority and civil law, and the legislature must pass a transparent and adequate defense budget.
44% : Burma remains an international pariah, and neither the U.S. nor the EU will sit at the same table with a representative of the Burmese junta, known officially as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
43% : A coordination group of humanitarian non-governmental organizations was not allowed to visit Burma until almost two weeks after the tsunami.
37% : China's biggest diplomatic success dur­ing 2004 was persuading the European Union to consider abandoning its arms embargo on China, which the EU levied after China cracked down on the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.

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