The EU, the US, Iran and the arms embargo on China

Behind the smiles
Times Online(UK) Original Article

Condoleezza Rice, the new US Secretary of State, is a skilled diplomat and used that quality to good effect in London yesterday. She will, if possible, be as determined to be as pleasant at every stage of her whirlwind trip of continental Europe and the Middle East. Nor will this be a brief charge followed by a prolonged respite back in Washington. She has pledged that either herself or Robert Zoellick, an astute choice as Deputy Secretary of State, will visit every EU and Nato capital in the next few months. There were complaints that General Colin Powell disliked travelling during the first Bush Administration. The Rice-Zoellick team will have no difficulty accumulating air miles.