Monday, March 25

France betrayed Taiwan's confidence by passing top-secret information to China about the controversial sale of $2.5 billion worth of French frigates to Taiwan in the early 1990s. Taiwan was originally going to buy Korean ships, then suddenly switched to French ones & this abrupt procurement switch was matched in Paris by a major policy reversal. Shenanigans partially covered in Christine Deviers-Joncour's "Whore of the Republic".

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