"...The increased interest in business, however, has not gone unnoticed by human rights groups, who worry that
Europe/>'s new-found infatuation with Chinese investment opportunities may blind them to
Beijing/>/>'s poor human rights record.

A Beijing-based lobby group, Human Rights in China, criticized Chirac for failing to bring up human rights abuses during his high-profile meetings with Chinese leaders over the weekend. Instead, the French President focused on praising economic developments and reiterated his opposition to the EU arms embargo as an outdated product 'of another time which does not correspond any more to the reality of the situation.' "

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