Looks like the
Republicans and Democrats are pissed off with us Europeans again.
America and Europe were yesterday being drawn ever closer into a trade war after senior US congressman issued a blunt warning to the EU over its plans to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo on China.
Talking explicitly about how it would retaliate for the first time, Richard Lugar, the powerful republican head of the Senate foreign relations committee, warned that the US would stop sales of military technology to Europe.
His Democratic counterpart, Senator Joseph Biden, warned that the lifting of the ban would be "a non-starter with Congress".
If the Americans don't want to sell us weapons that is just fine with me.